When a star dies, what happens to its planets? Well, if that star is a certain white dwarf 86 light-years away, those planets are currently in the process of being torn apart and eaten by the star, like some grotesque cosmic performance of Kronos dev
When a star dies, what happens to its planets? Well, if that star is a certain white dwarf 86 light-years away, those planets are currently in the process of being torn apart and eaten by the star, like some grotesque cosmic performance ofThis is not entirely unusual for white dwarfs.
of the University of California Los Angeles."By studying these white dwarfs, we hope to gain a better understanding of planetary systems that are still intact." White dwarfs are what happens when a regular star up to eight times the mass of the Sun reaches the end of its life. Once such a star runs out of material to fuse, it puffs up to red giant size before ejecting its outer material, and the stellar core collapses under gravity to form a dense object, shining brightly with the light of residual heat. That's the white dwarf.
when it hits red giant o'clock in a few billion years – but recently, astronomers have been finding evidence to suggest that some parts of planetary systems can actually survive it.
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