Diamond planet discovered

I just saw this and thought it was awesome, something I've only ever seen in science fiction. Astronomers have found a planet essentially made of diamond.

Oddly, it orbits around it's star really closely despite being really heavy. Closer than earth, but heavier than Jupiter.

Because of its immense density it's probably crystalline and contains heavier common elements. Like carbon. What's crystalline carbon?

That's right. diamond. A whole planet, 5 times the size of the earth, largely made of diamond.

Largest water deposit found

Scientists discovered the largest deposit of water ever observed yesterday, bigger than than all the oceans on earth put together and multiplied by a 140 trillion.

This HUGE collection was found in a cloud of the stuff orbiting a quasar 12 billion light years away, with the rather appealing name APM 08279+5255. It just rolls off the tongue.

APM 08279+5255

Studying the radiation from the water orbiting the quasar will be useful in studying how black holes heat up their surroundings, and is also just quite interesting that we've found an intergalactic ocean 10,00 times heavier than the sun.

But Conservapedia have already shat all over this. You know the way in Genesis there was only darkness and water before god waved his magic wand? According to these guys it's evidence that before creation there was only water.

But it gets worse! They go on to say Genesis postulates water as the most abundant substance in the universe, which is of course ridiculous. Despite the fact that this is an isolated vapour cloud and therefore lends no statistical significance, the quasar it orbits must be heavier than it, or it be the other way around. And this quasar is by default made of collapsed clouds of hydrogen! Not water!