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UV-drenched exoplanets might still host life after all

New Atlas - Wed 10 Apr 19

Whether or not there's life beyond Earth is one of the most profound questions we can ask, and nearby exoplanets are among the best places to start looking. Unfortunately, some of the ...

A Planet's Core and a Dead Star Give Us a Glimpse of Earth's Future

Discover Magazine - Fri 5 Apr 19

White dwarfs are weird objects. These dense cores of dead stars pack as much mass as the Sun into a body about the size of Earth. They're left behind when a small- to mid-sized star ends its ...

An exoplanet’s stormy winds are revealed by telescope teamwork

Nature News - Fri 5 Apr 19

An exoplanet’s stormy winds are revealed by telescope teamworkAn exoplanet’s stormy winds are revealed by telescope teamwork, Published online: 05 April 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01070-4A ...

A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system

Newscientist - Thu 4 Apr 19

A piece of a planet that survived the death of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. Planets in our solar system may look similar when the sun dies

Confirmed: a planet orbiting a white dwarf star

Cosmos Magazine - Thu 4 Apr 19

Astronomers find convincing evidence of a small body spinning rapidly around a dense and dying star. Andrew Masterson reports.

A glance into the end of a planetary system

Science Now - Thu 4 Apr 19

This planetary remnant somehow survived the death of its sun

ScienceNews - Thu 4 Apr 19

A small, sturdy piece of planet survived the collapse of its sun and now orbits the dead star.

Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star

Phys.org - Thu 4 Apr 19

A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by University of Warwick astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately ...

Heavy Metal Planet Fragment Survives Destruction From Dead Star, Laboratory Equipment - Fri 5 Apr 19
Heavy Metal Planet Fragment Survives Destruction from Dead Star, SpaceDaily - Wed 10 Apr 19
Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star, ScienceDaily - Thu 4 Apr 19

This Dead Exoplanet Core Could Be a Preview of Earth’s Future

Extremetech - Mon 8 Apr 19

Astronomers have spotted a distant star system that could offer a preview of Earth's future. It's a white dwarf star with a destroyed planetary core spinning around it. The post This Dead Exoplanet ...

Destroyed ‘past Earth’ reveals our apocalyptic future, study says

FOXNews - Fri 5 Apr 19

A terrifying new study may have provided a window into Earth's ultimate fate by looking at a newly discovered dying planet nearly 400 light years away.

Planetary fragments orbiting dead star hints at what Earth’s final days might look like

ZME Science - Fri 5 Apr 19

The surviving fragments of planet orbiting a white dwarf have been found by a team of astronomers.

Scientists discover destroyed planet orbiting a dwarf star 410 light years away

Daily Mail - Fri 5 Apr 19

About 410 light years away a hunk of heavy iron and nickel continue to orbit a collapsed star in what may be the last remnants of a planet obliterated by the death of its star.

Shard of Shattered Alien Planet Spotted Around Dead Star

SPACE.com - Thu 4 Apr 19

The killer of this alien planet left a significant piece of evidence behind.

Dead Planet's Heavy Metal Core Found Rocketing Around a Dead Sun in a Distant Solar System

Livescience - Thu 4 Apr 19

Astronomers found the remains of a dead planet orbiting a dead sun in a dead solar system. Happy spring!

Epic photos of the Earth from 1 Million Miles at Sol-Earth L1

Watts Up With That? - Mon 8 Apr 19

On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency’s EPIC camera on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now ...

Astronomers discover a chunk of a planet's core around a long-dead star

Astronomy.com - Fri 5 Apr 19

By finding the vaporized remains of a dead planet's metallic core, astronomers are getting a glimpse into the future of our solar system.