The star of the “dead” snacks caught on a Pluto -like object

Nature can become brutal. On a large scale, things become more destructive, as they fail from the massacre made of star dust the size of an entire planet.

Astronomers who use the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a white dwarf-the remains of the star of the star who dies-wandering in a meal from some researchers who were later identified as coming from a Blloot-like organism. According to a paper on the result published on September 18th Monthly notifications of the Royal Astronomical SocietyIt seems that astronomers have caught the dwarf near the end of his meal; Some time ago, it is possible that the intense dwarf attractiveness has extracted an ice planet from its normal orbit.

Moreover, more analysis of the convicted object revealed that its chemical formula included major elements such as carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen – which struggle, before its demise, the small planet may carry some water on its surface.

“Cosmic Crime Scene”

The white dwarf atmosphere usually consists of hydrogen and helium. But this particular dwarf, WD 1647+375, carry an unusual supply of flying materials, or chemicals with low melting points. The researchers told that something had stopped.

The main author of the study, Snetalata Saho, said in a Release. “When the planet falls (small solid things that are believed to form planets), its elements leave their chemical fingerprints in the star’s atmosphere, allowing us to rebuild the” victim’s “identity.

Therefore, the team began some detectives. One of the things that has emerged on them is the abundance of nitrogen in WD 1647+375, which the researchers have explained to be “a special chemical imprint that is especially important from the icy worlds.” The dwarf oxygen profit was much higher than it would have been if the victim was a rock being.

“We know that the Pluto surface is covered with nitrogen fish,” Saho added in A. Hubble statement. “We believe that the white dwarf accumulates the fragments of the crust and the cloak of a dwarf planet.”

From Hubble’s Ultraviolet signals, the team was able to conclude that the star meal was continuing for at least the past 13 years, as the object consumed at a rate of about 440,925 pounds (200,000 km) per second. If so, the victim in her pride would have a diameter of about 3 miles (5 km).

All evidence indicates that the WD 1647+375 was eating a snack on an iceberg’s iceberg around the local version of the Kuper belt, an ice ring of debris around our solar system.

A peek at the past and the future

The researchers explained that this discovery provides a sudden window in the past and the future of cosmic systems.

For example, comets and ice planets such as WD 1647+375 “Delivery of Water and other volatile materials to the Earth’s planets in the pole systems – a prerequisite for the development of life in other worlds,” according to the paper. Now that we knew the existence of such ice planets, this theory can be tested with other things, that is Visitor of the comet between the last stars, 3i/atlas.

Saho added that WD 1647+375 itself provides a peek at what will come to our solar system. Our sun will eventually burn and collapse in a white dwarf like WD 1647+375. When this happens, the planets in our solar system may face a similar fate like this ice planet.

“If a foreign observer looks at our solar system in the distant future, they may see the same type of residue that we see today about this white dwarf.”