Unlike Anything in Our Solar System: Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought – SciTechDaily

Rocky debris, the pieces of a former rocky planet that has broken up, spiral inward toward a white dwarf in this illustration. Studying the atmospheres of white dwarfs that have been “polluted” by such debris, a NOIRLab astronomer and a geologist have identified…

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