IT RAINS DIAMONDS INSIDE NEPTUNE… BUT NO ONE CAN COLLECT THEM

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Right now, thousands of diamonds are raining down inside Neptune, and nobody can collect a single one. About 8,000 km beneath the cloud [music] tops, temperatures hit around 5,000°C, and pressure becomes so extreme that carbon atoms in methane gas get squeezed together, forming actual solid diamonds.

[00:00:17]These gems fall like heavy raindrops through layers of superheated fluid, sinking deeper and deeper toward the planet's core, where they may form a thick layer of diamond sludge sitting on a rocky center. Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recreated these [music] conditions in 2017 and watched diamonds form in real time under laser-driven [music] shock waves, confirming what had been theory for decades.