‘Cosmic cannibalism’

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Astronomers have observed a phenomenon, called, “cosmic cannibalism," a dead star is ripping apart its planetary system.

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A white dwarf is ripping up an entire planetary system with its death throes.
A star is ending its life so violently that the dead star left behind, called a white dwarf, is disrupting an entire planetary system by sucking in debris from both its inner and outer reaches.
This cosmic phenomenon is the first time that astronomershave observed.
The white dwarf star is consuming the rock-metallic and icy material, both of which are the “ingredients of planets”.
This case of cosmic cannibalism was diagnosed with the help of archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other NASA observatories.
The researchers obtained the findings based on the analysis of material captured by the atmosphere of the nearby white dwarf star G238-44.

White Dwarf:

A white dwarf is formed when a low-mass star like our sun exhausts most of its nuclear fuel.
It is usually very dense and about the size of a planet.
They are dense, dim, stellar corpses — the last observable stage of evolution for low- and medium-mass stars.
Compared to our sun, a white dwarf has a similar carbon and oxygen mass though it is much smaller in size — similar to Earth.
White dwarf temperatures can exceed 100,000 Kelvin according to NASA (that's about 179,500 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Despite these sweltering temperatures, white dwarfs have a low luminosity as they're so small in size.