Did you know there’s a planet largely made of diamonds?

  The Diamond planet

 

Did you know there’s a planet largely made of diamonds?

An exoplanet named 55 CANCRI E, the constellation cancer is confirmed to be largely made of diamonds. It is one of the largest planets in the universe and has a mass eight times that of the Earth.

The temperature of the surface of CANCRI is estimated to range between 2,150 and 4,400 degrees Celsius. The main components of its dense atmosphere are hydrogen and helium.  

55 CANCRI is largely made up of carbon and has a density twice of the earth with high pressure.

The CANCRI  system has 5 planets, and may possibly have more planets.  55 CANCRI E or planet  Janssen orbits a star known as Copernicus only 41 light years away from us.  It was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our galaxy. This alien star is also known as a “super–Earth “.

It’s a G-type star just like the sun. Its mass is  0.08 Earths.  It takes 0.7 days to complete its one orbit. The radius of CANCRI  is 1.875 xEARTH. The mass of CANCRI E is 7.99 Earth. It has a surface temperature of nearly 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Because of its high radius, it is believed that it is must close to its parent plane. researchers observed this planet with the Hubble telescope, and the result was published in 2013. According to some theories its surface includes volcanoes or running lava. 

 

Cancrie is made up of carbon, silicon carbide, and iron. Carbon is present in excess more than on Earth. Some researchers say it is possible it has an atmosphere made up of oxygen or nitrogen, or a very thin atmosphere of mineral vapor.

 

Some theories say that if cancer e is fully locked, the lit-facing surface may be permanently molted or in case it is experiencing day and night then hopefully due to high temperature in the day the surface must be heating up during and get solid during night cause of cool temperature.