I'd be all for this.

Hahahha me too

clear out michigan - nothing there but nice tasting water anyway.....

Funny you mentioned this as they recently discovered a planet made of diamonds (well not literally but here you go anyway).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77O69A20110825

Zooming in on a star that shouldn't exist.
 

“A widely accepted theory predicts that stars like this, with low mass and extremely low quantities of metals, shouldn’t exist because the clouds of material from which they formed could never have condensed,” said Elisabetta Caffau (Zentrum fur Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Germany and Observatoire de Paris, France), lead author of the paper. “It was surprising to find, for the first time, a star in this ‘forbidden zone’, and it means we may have to revisit some of the star formation models.” http://pda.physorg.com/news/2011-08-star.html



This video zoom sequence starts with a wide-field view of the bright constellation of Leo (The Lion) and slowly closes in on what looks like an unremarkable faint star. This ancient star is called SDSS J102915+172927 and has been found to have the lowest amount of elements heavier than helium of all stars yet studied. It has a mass smaller than that of the Sun and is probably more than 13 billion years old. http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1132a

Noobs! I see a lot of stars around it!

It's a new breed of star, The Supermodel Star. Soon all stars will want to weigh as much.

This is what excites me about the new telescopes launched recently. It kills me that we limit funding for things such as this, and instead focus on bombing worthless countries. [thumbdown]

Maybe we are bombing them to make room for a giant Earth-based telescope?