Exoplanet Building Blocks Found around White Dwarfs

from 60-Second Space · host Scientific American

Silicon-rich rocky material was found around white dwarfs in the Hyades star cluster by the Hubble Space Telescope, despite the fact that almost no known planets exist in star clusters. John Matson reports

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