* Astronomy

The Glowing Halo of a Zombie Star

The remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. This gives a glimpse of the far-future fate of the Solar System.
Led by Christopher Manser, a PhD student at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, the team used data from ESO/s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other observatories to study the shattered remains of an asteroid around a stellar remnant a white dwarf called SDSS J1228+1040.
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