Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk

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Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk. When the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a plasma is formed and cools via detectable X-ray emission.

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University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

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