Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk. When the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a plasma is formed and cools via detectable X-ray emission. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Final Moments of Planetary Remnants Seen for First Time
- New study confirms decades of indirect evidence for debris from disintegrating planets hurtling into white dwarfs across the galaxy
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