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Artist impression of nanoscale diamonds surrounding a young star in the Milky Way. Recent Green Bank Telescope and Australia Telescope Compact Array observations have identified the telltale radio signal of diamond dust around 3 such stars, suggesting they are a source of the so-called anomalous microwave emission. (S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Astronomers Detect Nanodiamonds in Three Baby Star Systems

June 11, 2018

Astronomers have detected swirls of diamonds, hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, in the protoplanetary or circumstellar disks of three baby star systems in the Milky Way – V892 Tau, HD 97048, and MWC 297. After conducting a series of observations with the US National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope […]

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