KPD 0005+5106: Roasted and shredded by a stellar sidekick – Phys.Org

An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion objecteither a lightweight star or a planetwith incessant blasts of heat and radiation plus a relentless gravitational pull tearing it…

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