Naked Science follows the story of a diamond from the creation of carbon inside the heart of a dying sun, through to the cutting of a diamond mined in South Africa. It follows how the early universe created the element carbon in the nuclear furnace of early suns, how the atoms were blasted off into space to be captured in dust around our early sun. This dust accretes to form the earth where the carbon is heated and compressed to created diamonds the hardest thing on the planet.