{"id":140916,"date":"2022-06-21T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dead-stars-cannibalism-of-its-planetary-system-is-most-far-reaching-ever-witnessed"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:23:57","slug":"dead-stars-cannibalism-of-its-planetary-system-is-most-far-reaching-ever-witnessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dead-stars-cannibalism-of-its-planetary-system-is-most-far-reaching-ever-witnessed","title":{"rendered":"Dead star\u2019s cannibalism of its planetary system is most far-reaching ever witnessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUb8SZh5Q5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind\u2014known as a white dwarf\u2014is sucking in debris from both the system\u2019s inner and outer reaches, UCLA astronomers and colleagues report today.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first case of cosmic cannibalism in which astronomers have observed a white dwarf consuming both rocky-metallic material, likely from a nearby asteroid, and icy material, presumed to be from a body similar to those found in the Kuiper belt at the fringe of our own solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never seen both of these kinds of objects accreting onto a white dwarf at the same time,\u201d said lead researcher Ted Johnson, a physics and astronomy major at UCLA who graduated last week. \u201cBy studying these white dwarfs, we hope to gain a better understanding of planetary systems that are still intact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind\u2014known as a white dwarf\u2014is sucking in debris from both the system\u2019s inner and outer reaches, UCLA astronomers and colleagues report today. This is the first case of cosmic cannibalism in which astronomers have observed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}