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Diamond Planet Found Orbiting a Pulsar [PHOTOS & VIDEOS]

Diamond Planet
Listen up ladies (and any gentlemen with a spaceship), astronomers say they have discovered an exotic planet seemingly made of diamonds that's five times the size of Earth and with more mass than Jupiter. And get this, the diamond-crystal planet was discovered in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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