The 35 carat diamond ring – yes, 35 carats – has a centre stone surrounded by two tapered smaller stones in a platinum setting.  

That’s big huh?

Just to put that into perspective, the average engagement ring is just one carat.

So if you think a ‘huge rock’ would make a favourable impression on your future fiancé, or your wife, then maybe you should figure out a way to go capture a newly discovered white dwarf star astronomers are calling an Earth size diamond in space.

“This freak star is essentially crystallised carbon,” Dave Reneke, from Australasian Science magazine said.

“Immense gravitational pressure and heat over countless billions of years have turned this into a huge diamond.

“What it really comes down to is a giant floating piece of bling!”

Keen to buy?

You’d better carry a deep wallet because this 10 billion trillion trillion carat monster has a cost that’s literally, well, astronomical!

For the record, that’s a one followed by 34 zeroes.

“It’s so big, in fact, that you’d need a jeweller’s magnifying glass the size of the Sun to grade this gem,” Dave said.

Seriously, how much would this status symbol cost you if you had the means to buy it?

“Words like a ‘gadzillion’ dollars’ comes to my mind!” Dave said.

“Sorry but it’s the best I can do! If you need a cool drink at this stage, be my guest!”

The next time you stargaze imagine how much real estate there is out there.

And that’s not even counting the rich mineralogy locked up in the planets and asteroids!

Want to go bigger with a few more “awesomes”? Try the largest star ever found.

A giant named Canis Majoris is the largest star in the universe in terms of size. To give you some perspective, if we could take VY Canis Majoris and put it in our solar system in place of the sun, it would stick out of Saturn’s orbit.

Want another “awesome” moment.

A reader asks what happens to a bullet fired on the Moon?

“The bullet exits the gun at the same speed on the moon as it does on the Earth,” Dave said.

“But as soon as it leaves the gun there’s no air resistance and little gravity.

“It can maintain its speed longer than the Earth bullet can.”

So, assuming your bullet doesn’t hit anything and with no air resistance, the bullet will go about 6 times farther on the moon than on Earth.

Now that’s awesome.