{"id":183771,"date":"2024-02-27T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/white-dwarf-star-has-metal-scar-after-gobbling-planetary-fragment"},"modified":"2024-02-27T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:31:16","slug":"white-dwarf-star-has-metal-scar-after-gobbling-planetary-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/white-dwarf-star-has-metal-scar-after-gobbling-planetary-fragment","title":{"rendered":"White dwarf star has metal scar after gobbling planetary fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-dwarf-star-has-metal-scar-after-gobbling-planetary-fragment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have spotted an unusual sign that a dead star feasted on a fragment of a planet orbiting it: a metal scar on the star\u2019s surface. The revelation sheds light on the dynamic nature of planetary systems even in the end stages of a star\u2019s life cycle \u2014 and could foretell the eventual fate of our own solar system, according to the scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Planets form from swirls of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk that surrounds a newly formed star. But as the star ages and dies, the stellar object can consume the very planets and asteroids it helped create.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers observed a dead star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/16\/world\/jupiter-planet-orbiting-white-dwarf-trnd-scn\/index.html\">known as a white dwarf<\/a>, located about 63 light-years away from Earth using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The observation revealed a metallic feature<strong> <\/strong>on the star\u2019s surface that the researchers determined was related to a change detected in the star\u2019s magnetic field. A new study detailing the observation appeared Monday in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/ad2619\" target=\"_blank\">The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have spotted an unusual sign that a dead star feasted on a fragment of a planet orbiting it: a metal scar on the star\u2019s surface. The revelation sheds light on the dynamic nature of planetary systems even in the end stages of a star\u2019s life cycle \u2014 and could foretell the eventual fate of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}