Scientists claim that there is a planet in the Universe, on the surface of which there is a huge amount of diamonds and graphites. In order to reach such a planet, you need to cover a distance of 40 light years.
Astrophysicists are studying the planet, which is located in the constellation Cancer. The planet, named 55 Cancri E (55 Cancer E), revolves around the solar star at such a speed that its year is equal to 18 Earth hours. The first to discover 55 Cancri E were American astronomers, and since then this planet has not ceased to attract the attention of scientists. It is twice the size of the Earth in radius length, eight times - in mass; the density is presumably the same as that of the Earth, but the surface temperature reaches 1650 degrees Celsius.
The most unusual thing about the planet is that its surface is not covered with water, but with diamonds and graphite. Scientists have jokingly nicknamed 55 Cancri E "the planet of treasures", as it is, in fact, a giant diamond (about a third of the entire exoplanet consists of diamonds).
In recent years, cosmologists have advanced in the study of planets that are located outside our solar system (the so-called exoplanets). Location 55 Cancri E is 40 light-years from planet Earth, which is 370 trillion kilometers. To overcome such a distance, a starship moving at a speed of 20 kilometers per second will have to spend 600 thousand years! Of course, in the near future, modern technologies will not allow a person to reach 55 Cancri E. But with the help of powerful telescopes and scientific calculations, cosmologists increasingly have to wonder how big and unknown the world around is.