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Hubble Observes Planet “Polluted” Dead Stars In Hyades
Artist Impression of debris around a white dwarf star. Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI)
For those of us who practice amateur astronomy, we’re very familiar with the 150 light-year distant Hyades star cluster – one of the jewels in the Taurus crown. We’ve looked at it countless times, but now the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken its turn observing and spotted something astronomers weren’t expecting – the debris of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Are these “burn outs” being polluted by detritus similar to asteroids? According to researchers, this new observation could mean that rocky planet creation is commonplace in star clusters. (…)
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Post tags: Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, Hyades, planet formation, Rocky Planets, spectroscopy, Star Clusters, Ultra-violet Light, white dwarf stars
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