Hubble Space Telescope Captures Dead Star Smashing Planets In A Stellar Demolition Derby

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Dead Star Smashing Planets In A Stellar Demolition Derby
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a white dwarf star that is cannibalizing debris from the system’s inner and outer reaches. It is the first time researchers have found a white dwarf star that is feeding off both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets.

Astronomers used archival data from Hubble and other NASA

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