Sharmila Kuthunur is a Seattle-based science journalist covering astronomy, astrophysics and space exploration. Follow her on X @skuthunur.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesBillions of years from now, any alien civilization searching for life in the vicinity of the solar system would find Earth not as our beloved pale blue dot in its orbit but as bits and pieces of metal polluting our sun.
Illustration of the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface as a result of having ingested planetary debris.Although the universe is sprinkled with many such"polluted" white dwarfs, finding them is by no means easy.
To test the method, Hawkins and his colleagues tasked the algorithm to sort nearly 100,000 white dwarfs cataloged by the Milky Way-mappingThe algorithm isolated 375 stars that it determined to have multiple tell-tale metals, the name astronomers give to elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, in their atmospheres.
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