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Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth was even born

    A strangely cool star that has been dead for more than 10 billion years contains levels of some elements that indicate it ate its own planets


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    5 November 2022

    White dwarfs (blue-white) are very cool for stars

    Mark A. Garlick

    A strangely cool star absorbed its planets billions of years before Earth even existed.

    Last year, astronomers https://www.newscientist.com/article/2292158-weird-white-dwarf-that-is-colder-than-it-should-be-defies-explanation/”>spotted a white dwarf star about 90 light years from us. White dwarfs are the remnants of dead stars that have ceased to carry out nuclear fusion, but this one, WD J2147-4035, appeared to be much cooler than most white dwarfs. Its relatively cold temperature indicated that it was about 10 billion years old – much older than other stars in its galactic neighbourhood.

    Now, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/abbigailelms/”>Abbigail Elms …


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