Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system (2025, November 20) retrieved 20 November 2025 from https.//phys.org/news/2025-11-scientists-innermost-region-white-dwarf.html.
In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock ... .
The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements originating from the rocky body ....
Astronomers have identified a rare, ancient planetary system still being actively consumed by its central white dwarf star, LSPM J0207+3331, which is located 145 light-years from Earth... white dwarf.
White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago ...Sometimes we find white dwarfs as part of binary systems ...
The white dwarf is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 255 light-years from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms, and has a mass about 57 per cent that of the sun ...White dwarfs are among the ...