1.19.2006

lucy in the sky

This is a little "off topic", whatever that may mean here, but it's just too cool to not propagate.
SPACE IS FULL OF DIAMONDS.

A faint, reddish glow called the Extended Red Emission (ERE) pervades space's dustiest places. Astronomers have puzzled over the phenomenon for more than 3 decades. Now, a team led by Huan-Cheng Chang of Taiwan's Academia Sinica claims the glow comes from nanodiamonds in space.

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