white dwarfs

The planetary nebula Abell 36, the glowing gas thrown off by a nearby dying star. Credit: ESO
Gorgeousness in death
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The sun is destined to turn into a gargantuan crystal ball after it dies
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Jan 11, 2019
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ESA image of a crystallized white dwarf
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A dead star is eating its planets
Phil Plait
Jul 25, 2018
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Artwork depicting a white dwarf that’s destroyed its inner planets, which are now raining down on it. Credit: Jon Lomberg / Gemini Observatory
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Did our first known interstellar visitor come from a dead star?
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Jan 4, 2018
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Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser
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The first evidence of planets around another star was found in… 1917?
Phil Plait
Nov 6, 2017
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An artist’s rendering of a comet (which is very similar to an asteroid) getting torn apart near a white dwarf. Many white dwarfs have rings of dust around them as well, more evidence of a planetary system orbiting them. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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