Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data
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Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music & Sound
“Through a Computer Screen” by Raphael Olivier [SACEM] via KTSA Publishing [SACEM] and Universal Production Music
ESA Credit:
Ring of rocky debris around a white dwarf star (artist’s impression)
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Evaporating extrasolar planet, from Video (artist's impression)
Credit: ESA, Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) and NASA.
Red Giant Sun
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Flight through our Solar System
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
ESO Credit:
Comets in Solar System
Credit on screen with : ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music & Sound
“Through a Computer Screen” by Raphael Olivier [SACEM] via KTSA Publishing [SACEM] and Universal Production Music
ESA Credit:
Ring of rocky debris around a white dwarf star (artist’s impression)
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Evaporating extrasolar planet, from Video (artist's impression)
Credit: ESA, Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) and NASA.
Red Giant Sun
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Flight through our Solar System
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
ESO Credit:
Comets in Solar System
Credit on screen with : ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)