Finishing Off an Asteroid
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Finishing Off an Asteroid
Only one white dwarf star has ever been caught eating an asteroid. Recently, however, astronomers may have found another that just finished its meal. Eating Asteroids Although stars like our Sun don’t explode in violent supernovae like their massive counterparts, they don’t slink quietly into a peaceful old age either. When a solar-mass star reaches the end of its main sequence life, it first swells dramatically (the Sun may eventually grow so l…
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