How a white dwarf is vaporising a giant planet
Jan 15, 2020
2 minutes
GOVERT SCHILLING
on the ground tells you someone is wounded. Likewise, the discovery of an unusual stream of gas onto a white dwarf star betrays the presence of a ‘bleeding’ planet. Astronomers have reported the first-ever, albeit indirect, evidence for a planet orbiting a white dwarf — the dense remnant of a Sun-like star that has used
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