Object 94: So Hot and So Small

from George's Random Astronomical Object · host George Bendo

WD 2211-495 is a small, hot white dwarf with a rather unusual amount of heavy elements in its outer atmosphere, implying that something from a surrounding planetary system occasionally falls into the star.

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