Astronomers have discovered a planet-destroying “the Death Star” – Sight

«Death Star”, capable of absorbing the planet, discovered by scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, media reported.

«Nothing like humanity has never seen before. We watch as the star destroys its own planetary system. Now we have a completely accurate evidence that white dwarfs actually periodically destroy the planet “- leads the RIA” Novosti “words of astrophysicist Andrew Vanderburgh referring to the journal Nature.

The researchers note that a similar fate awaits in the future and the Earth when the Sun begins to transform itself into a white dwarf. By this time, our planet would be a lifeless, because the light will swell up and engulf the Earth’s orbit of Venus and Mercury in the last stages of life.

Object WD 1145 + 017 is located in the constellation Virgo and now “eats” it recently destroyed a small exoplanet the size of Ceres and is preparing to absorb the other inhabitants of his system.

Found “Death Star” Astrophysics suddenly, watching with a telescope, “Kepler” for periodic dips brightness of individual stars, indicating the presence of near planets.

WD 1145 + 017 every 4.5 hours overshadows large object, the shape and size of which changes each time. Scientists have suggested that ran into a white dwarf, recently devastated planet apart and absorbing her remains.

study confirmed the hypothesis of the spectrum “Death Star.” The fact that the absorbing material is distributed over the surface of the white dwarf is no accident, and layers. Heavy elements will gradually descend, and gaseous substances – rise. Because of this at the time of absorption of the remains of planets, asteroids and comets can be seen on the surface of the star from the characteristic lines in the spectrum.

Scientists have found that WD 1145 + 017 destroyed the planet with a mass approximately equal to the mass of Ceres and similar to the chemical composition of the earth. The cause of death of objects around the “Death Star”, planetary scientists believe, become destabilized the orbits of celestial bodies at the system reset, the outer shells WD 1145 + 017 during its transformation from a giant into a white dwarf.

We also recall, 17 October it was reported that the orbital telescope “Kepler” found strange formation around one of the stars, which can be highly artificial objects alien civilization.

July 23, astronomers using a telescope “Kepler” found in the “habitable zone” sunlike stars exoplanet, the surface of which, presumably, there is liquid water.