
Our universe have billions of galaxies and each galaxy contain billions of millions of stars and today i am telling about a diamond star,so welcome to my blog..
55 Cancri-e is an exoplanet 41 lightyears away from the earth. So the thing that ready stands out about this planet is that it is in part made of diamond, obviously that would really incestivese us to go and mine this planet sometime in the distant future,it is estimated that the worth of the whole planet is between 1 and 30 million dollars that number by the way has 30 zeros,but at the same time if we do that actually would happens is that the price of diamonds would drop immediately beacuse of such abandance. When there is abundance of any resources the price of it drops so if we really were to go there that previous value that is between 1 and 30 million dollars would then not be true, in fact in that case diamond would become essentially worthless.
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| 55 Cancri-e |
So then let's visit this planet and see what is going on there. The first step to visiting it is obviously reaching it, now to reach this planet going at the fastest Speed in the universe would take 41 years, because the planet is 41 light years away and the speed of light is fastest,but it is unrealistic to except us to reach that speed,but what could very much be possible in the future is to create a spaceship going at 1% the speed of light by using engine's with anti matter in that case it would take us 4100 years to reach 55 Cancri-e, which is obviously insanely long,but considering that in this future reality we created the spaceship which is able to achieve 1% the speed perfected anti-aging technology so that trip of 4100 years would be achievable. Also 1% the speed of light is at least 3000 times faster than a shot of bullet ,so that just pretty much tells how you actually distant this planet is ,you would to go at a speed which 3000 times faster than a shot bullet in order to get this planet in 4100 years,our brain can barely comprehend the scale of the universe.
So now we reached 55 Cancri-e system,upon getting closer it would be noticeable that 55 Cancri-e system is a binary system, meaning you would notice two star shining, 55 Cancri-A and 55 Cancri-B,now we would want to go to the star which is shines much brighter and it is much bigger which is Cancrie-A because that is where our diamond planet is, Cancrie-A is a star very similar to our sun, they pretty much share almost the same mass and diameter and are both main sequence stars. So we would approach the 55 Cancri-e the planet we would immediately notice just how close this planet is to its parent is to its parent star and that is because it is around 2 million kilometers away from its parent star, which 75 times closer than Earth is to the sun.
Now while looking at the planet from a distance if wouldn't immediately look like it is made out of diamond, because those diamond are likely under the surface. Now that is because we know that roughly a 1/3 of this planet mass is carbon so what is likely is that due to very high temperature and pressure a big chunk of carbon that is present there turned into diamonds.
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| Image by|Extrasolar Planets - LeviathanAstronomy.com| |
Now while looking at the surface of this planet from a distance it would be obvious that there are huges chunks of land which would be producing light,and that would be because you would be looking huge lava oceans that are present on the surface of this planet.
Due to the fact that this planet is so close to the star that makes the surface temperature on the day side of the planet reach 2,500 °C which is enough to melt rocks and that would be creating the lava oceans present there and that is also 5 times hotter than surface of venus which is the hottest planet in the solar system. But also due to this close distance between this planet and its parent star what always happens in such situations is that the planet is tidally locked. So on the day side it is always day and on the night side always night.
Now if we wanted to land this planet than we would need a suit that is at least capable of with standing temperature that are around 1300 °C which is isane, so if such a suit existed in this future then would actually be able to physically land on the night side of the planet where temperature are not 2500 °C but 1300°C. Now in the night side of the planet the surface would likely contain much less lava and more land to actually land on ,since the temperature on this side of the planet would be two times colder compared to the day side meaning rocks wouldn't melt as much .
So let's say you have this suit that can with stand those temperature,as you would land?? You would clearly notice that this planet has an atmosphere,this atmosphere is around 1.4 thicker than the one present on earth, meaning the pressure is a bit higher, this planet is first super earth exoplanet the atmosphere was detected on,and there is cahnce that this atmosphere to the one on Earth.
Now besides the noticable atmosphere, upon landing it would be also noticable that isn't completely dark, taht is because it the planet was in the right position around it's start would be able to see the other star that orbits that stars would provide a tiny bit of visibility in the night side on the surface,so you would be able to see what you are doing? As you would try to move it would be apparent that moving is a lot more exhausting tha on Earth and you would feet extremely heavy,you would be exhausted simply by walking in mere minutes,that is because 55 Cancri-e is huge planet that has a mass 8 times greater than the Earth and has a diameter that is almost doubble the Earth's diameter ,so it is a very heavy and dense object which causes it's surface garvity to be doubble. The Earth surface garvity,so that is why you would feel so heavy and that is why if you dropped something on this surface you would see that it would fall to the ground much faster than it is on earth, that is why it is considered a super eaarth a huge dense terrestrial planet.
Now besides the occasional lava that you would stumble apon you would likely be able to spot them since they explain the huge temperature variation over the surface of this planet so if you see one,you better stay away since it could get even hotter than it already is moving around the night side of the planet it would be apparent that this is not a place humans would want to colonize tha condition on this planet are way to extreme for it to be habitable in any sense,it might look like a cool planet but in reallity it is so hot that there is no reason to colonize it,even underground wouldn't be a good enough of a reason since they would be really hard to get to, especially in these condition. If you stayed on this planet exploring it for 17 hours than you would officially be there for a year on that planet since the planet takes 17 hours in order to complete an orbitor, meaning every 17 hours is a new year there Upon lifting off the surface with your spaceship you would notice that the parent star 55 Cancri-A would appear to be a enormous,as it would take up the majority of the view you would to be looking at, but also you would need some special glases to look at this star,because you would to be close otherwise you would go blind immediately. So that has huge chunck of diamond present in it's composition would be like,it would be quite an experience but you would also need to have technology that is way beyond that we currently have.....
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Amazing bro
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