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Dead Star Found Still Consuming Its Planetary System | Astronomers have identified a rare, ancient planetary system still being actively consumed by its 3-billion-year-old central white dwarf star


Media Contact: Meagan O’Shea Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers using data from the W. M.

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