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Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found an unusual ring of metal-rich gas orbiting very close around a white dwarf star. The presence of the ring helps solve a problem for astronomers ...

Astronomers have found a white dwarf star with a strange metallic scar on its surface. This blemish probably formed when the star ripped up and ate a small planet in its orbit. Researchers often spot ...

Planetesimal orbits around a white dwarf. Initially, every planetesimal has a circular, prograde orbit. The kick forms an eccentric debris disk which with prograde (blue) and retrograde orbits (orange ...