Star with a scar spotted in our galaxy
Astronomers spotted a “metal scar” on a white dwarf star found within our galaxy. After closer observation, the astronomers say the scar could be the remains of a destroyed planet that the star ate.The white dwarf, known as WD 0816-310, is a superdense dead star that is located just 63 light-years away from Earth. The star with the scar, as we’ll call it for now, has caught scientists’ attention as we originally assumed that the fragments of planets and asteroids eaten by white dwarfs would spread evenly across…