WD 1145+017
WHITE DWARF · destruction in progress
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Around this white dwarf, telescopes watch destruction happening in real time: chunks of a disintegrating minor planet circle every 4.5 hours, each trailing a comet like cloud of debris that flickers across the dead star's light. We are witnessing the final weeks, cosmically speaking, of a world being recycled into dust.
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