White Dwarf Atmospheres Might Contain the Pulverized Crusts of Their Dead Planets

White Dwarf Atmospheres Might Contain the Pulverized Crusts of Their Dead Planets
By Paul M. Sutter

Astronomers have developed a new technique to search for exoplanets – by looking for their crushed up bones in the atmospheres of white dwarfs. And it’s working. The search for planets outside the solar system, known as exoplanets, has one significant limitation: we can only find exoplanets that exist right now. But our universe has …

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February 1, 2021 at 08:19PM
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