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White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres – Livescience.com
When a star collapses, it throws its solar system into total chaos. Sometimes, that chaos leaves a mark.
Astronomers are looking for the bones of dead planets inside the corpses of dead stars and they may have just found some.
In a paper published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature Astronomy
, a team of researchers described how they used data from the Gaia space satellite to peer into the atmospheres of four white dwarfs
the shriveled, crystalline husks of once-massive stars that burned through all their fuel. Swirling among the hot soup of hydrogen and helium surrounding those stars, the team detected…
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