Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

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New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...

The Helix Nebula, located 650 light-years from Earth, has baffled scientists for decades. The planetary nebula was created by ...

Now, new research suggests that a white dwarf known as the dense core of a dead star may have destroyed a nearby planet and maybe that is the reason behind those X-ray signals. This could be the first ...

The scientists say a planet nearby has been destroyed by a white dwarf ... It was formed when a star in death released gas and is also known as Caldwell 63. The gas now measures about three ...

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This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Arcand This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center: this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen ...

It turns out this star may have destroyed a planet ... debris pulled onto the white dwarf, as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix nebula," said ...