Gas giants are a girl’s best friend
Rappers these days seem to emphasize how they ‘make it rain’ with money, sex, and drugs. But the gas giants of our solar system seem to have one-upped these ‘young upstarts’ (as my grandparents would say) by making it rain diamonds. Yes, literally, diamonds. According to findings by Dr Kevin Baines, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the atmospheres of the gas giants (specifically Saturn and Jupiter), along with the existence of tremendous amounts of carbon, may have diamond rain. However they are supposed to eventually melt on Saturn and Jupiter. But if you can get to Uranus or Neptune, then with their colder cores, diamonds are forever (as attested to by self-proclaimed lyrical genius Kanye West).
Dreams or reality?
The wonders of the Universe, and then some more. 
I like the Kanye West reference :] Beyond that, this is a great topic to blog about! I had never heard about the possibility of diamond rain on other planets before, and you’d think something like that would be more highly publicized. Obviously the diamonds won’t fall as cut and polished specimens, but I still think it would be an incredible sight to see. I’d be curious to know just exactly how intense the pressure is in the atmospheres of these planets. Anyway, great post!
Nice job Asad and fun picture 🙂 You bring up something that we’ll talk about in class a bit and that’s the super high pressures in the centers of gas giants. Though I hadn’t really thought about the diamond rain… It will make for a nice addition to class!
Very interesting topic and possibly one of the most entertaining astronomy blog posts I have read. The whit was made better by the fact that diamond rain is a real possibility, and is something I hadn’t previously thought could occur.