It Rains Diamonds on Neptune

Deep in the crushing pressure and heat of ice giants like Neptune and Uranus, carbon is thought to compress into actual diamonds that sink slowly through…

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Nobody's ever going to mine it, which is somehow the most satisfying part of the fact.

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