What is the name of the star that is a diamond the size of the sun?

I saw on the History chanel that there is a star the size of the sun that is a diamond, and that it is approximately 100 trillion karats. Any one else heard of it?|||There is no such star!





White dwarfs are composed of carbon and have a somewhat crystalline structure because of electron degeneracy (the closest you can get the electrons together is an ordered structure). But white dwarfs are closer to the size of the Earth, and I'm not sure you can really call it a diamond.





see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200鈥?/a>


for a news report on the object I suspect you are talking about. But it is smaller than Earth. The name of this particular star is V 8CEN


but it is suspected that many white dwarfs have this structure.|||now there's a real giggle.... some are calling it 'Lucy' as in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from way back when.....





if it's a diamond, no matter what size, it's not shining like a star and would be invisible.....(not what the website says)





trillions, in diamond lingo, is a cut given to make a lot of sparkles.....





the History Channel is not known to have 'truth' as it's upper consideration...........don't buy into everything you see there.....





thank you... I stand corrected.... but it's going to take some real 'vision' for me to buy this one..... diamond 'snow'?... inside/as part of a star?.... diamonds burn in high heat here.... so I'm pretty confused.....|||It's actually quite a bit bigger than that. It weighs out to 10 billion trillion trillion carats. It's in the constellation Centaurus, only 17 light years away, and is known by the designation BPM 37093. It is made up of crystallized carbon, another way of saying 'diamond'.





To the others who answered: Don't be so quick to dismiss. Remember, the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine. Surprises are to be expected.