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Astronomers watch as a dead star eats its planets and blasts out X-rays
Astronomers watch as a dead star eats its planets and blasts out X-rays,For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a dead star currently eating the remains of its former planets, the debris accelerated to hellacious speeds and temperatures before slamming into the star's surface. You might want to read that again, because wow. We've known this has been going on for a while, but until now the evidence has been indirect. The new observations have detected, metaphorically speaking, the death screams of the debris as it plunges downwards to its final destruction.

Astronomers watch as a dead star eats its planets and blasts out X-rays

For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a dead star currently eating the remains of its former planets, the debris accelerated to hellacious speeds and temperatures before slamming into the star’s surface. You might want to read that again, because wow. We’ve known this has been going on for a while, but until now the evidence has been indirect. The new observations have detected, metaphorically speaking, the death screams of the debris as it plunges downwards to its final destruction.