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Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini "Planet"


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NASA’s K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini "Planet"

Scientists using NASA’s repurposed Kepler space telescope, known as the K2 mission, have uncovered strong evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf star. This discovery validates a long-held theory that white dwarfs are capable of cannibalizing possible remnant planets that have survived within its solar system.

“We are for the first time witnessing a miniature “planet” ripped apart by intense gravity, being vaporized by starlight and raining rocky material onto its star,” said Andrew Vanderburg, graduate student from at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lead author of the paper published in Nature.

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Recent article (here and) that connects (evidence observation) hot white and blue stars with a very rapid rotation about an axis. Here it confirms the orbit of the planet by 4.5 days.

Nothing indicates that this star is different from the others, especially because we record more elements, in trace because it is about the transitional period where behind these elements (more present in red and blue stars in the transition) ...

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Recent article (here and) that connects (evidence observation) hot white and blue stars with a very rapid rotation about an axis.

Here it confirms the orbit of the planet by 4.5 days.

Nothing indicates that this star is different from the others, especially because we record more elements, in trace because it is

about the transitional period where behind these elements (more present in red and blue stars in the transition) ...

What?

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What?

Don't encourage him.

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Don't encourage him.

1,0,3,3,0,3,0,0,0,0,0 ... You have opened the topic but do not allow debate, or allow only members of your club?

The article was full of disrespect uniformity. "Small" star appears as a body outside the laws of physics. Of such bodies is 70% in our galaxy. Are they all "Dwarves" or only small stars? If the magnet rotates, not only turning up the masses, but also attractive forces. It's a little physics, visible and obvious. Why does not apply, but telling tales?

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I wonder if anyone who wants to could comment on my speculation that in the distant future when our sun has gone through its cycle and become a white dwarf that mankind could then find a home for a hundred billion years or so orbiting it as it slowly cools.

Of course one would want to be far enough away to avoid the tidal effects we see here.

Of course during the sun's red giant phase we would have to locate ourselves out further -- say Titan or something.

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