Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star's Glowing Ring System (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star's Glowing Ring System (2 of 3)

Caption

This is the debris disc around SDSS1228+1040 (left) in scale to Saturn and his rings (right). While the white dwarf in SDSS1228+1040 is about seven times smaller than Saturn, it weighs 2500 times more.

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Mark Garlick/University of Warwick

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