{"id":5001,"date":"2007-07-25T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2007-07-25T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T16:21:47","slug":"the-not-so-glittering-world-and-diamond-centered-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-not-so-glittering-world-and-diamond-centered-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Not so Glittering World and Diamond Centered Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.iowastatedaily.com\/media\/storage\/paper818\/news\/2004\/03\/01\/ScienceTech\/Astronomers.Find.Crystalline.Structure.In.diamond.Star-1099063.shtml\" class=\"external external_icon\">solid diamond inside a white dwarf star<\/a>? That&#8217;s the stuff a Dr Who villain creams his pants over.  Where was I when this was reported?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>The discovery three years ago of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iastate.edu\/inside\/1998\/0403\/diamondstar.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">white dwarf star with a solid diamond core <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2007\/07\/25\/diamond_spa.html?category=space\" class=\"external external_icon\">bolstered theories that the carbon-containing atmospheres of the large outer planets <\/a>were celestial diamond factories even closer to home. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2007\/07\/25\/diamond_spa.html?category=space\" class=\"external external_icon\">Uranus&#8217; skies would make graphite and not little diamond clouds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2007\/07\/25\/diamond_spa.html?category=space\" class=\"external external_icon\">discovery<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.udel.edu\/darc\/wet\/finders\/bpm37093\/bpm37093.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">chewy diamond centered BPM37093<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solid diamond inside a white dwarf star? That&#8217;s the stuff a Dr Who villain creams his pants over. Where was I when this was reported? The discovery three years ago of a white dwarf star with a solid diamond core bolstered theories that the carbon-containing atmospheres of the large outer planets were celestial diamond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}