File:Artist’s impression of debris around a white dwarf star.jpg
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DescriptionArtist’s impression of debris around a white dwarf star.jpg |
English: This is an artist’s impression of a white dwarf (burned-out) star accreting rocky debris left behind by the star’s surviving planetary system. It was observed by Hubble in the Hyades star cluster. At lower right, an asteroid can be seen falling toward a Saturn-like disk of dust that is encircling the dead star. Infalling asteroids pollute the white dwarf’s atmosphere with silicon.
These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster is only 625 million years old. The white dwarfs are being polluted by asteroid-like debris falling onto them. |
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Source | http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1309a/ |
Author | NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI) |
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