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Astronomers Watch a ‘Zombie’ White Dwarf Star Devour the Remnants of a Destroyed Planet — and Can’t Explain Why - © NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

The end of this entry's definition reads: "The largest known dwarf planets are: Eris, Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, and 2015 RR245." Why is 2015 RR245 listed as one of the largest dwarf planets? For ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

A white dwarf is what’s left of a star, like our Sun, that reaches the end of its life. When stars use up all their energy, they expand into red titans, burning much hotter and brighter for a short ...

Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest objects in the outer Solar System, reflecting more than 70% of the sunlight ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

This marks the first time astronomers have observed the formation of a ring system. Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. While Saturn's rings are the most dramatic, the ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the ...