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Planets form from swirls of gas and dust known as planets. This disk of dust and gas surrounds newly formed stars. But when that star grows older and expires, This star will become a white dwarf. It can devour planets and asteroids it creates.
Recently, astronomers from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium in Northern Ireland said it used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe a dead star. which became a white dwarf Named WD 0816-310, it is regarding 63 light-years from Earth and has seen anomalous signals showing that the white dwarf is consuming debris from the planets orbiting it. The signs are traces of metal on the surface of the planet. Astronomers explain that Some white dwarfs are slowly cooling. will devour fragments of their home planets And now astronomers have discovered that the star’s magnetic field plays a key role in this process. This results in “scar”-like marks on the surface of the white dwarf.
The white dwarf WD 0816-310 is the remains of an Earth-sized star. that was once similar to our sun but larger The former star has noticeable dark patches on its surface due to metal concentrations.
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