Astrophysics have found real-world likeness of the Death Star from “Star Wars” – a real star, destroying planets revolving around it, writes the Space.com , citing a study from Harvard Center for Astrophysics, published in the journal Nature .
“We’ve never seen anything like it, – said study lead author Andrew Vanderburgh. – We see the solar system in the process of destruction.”
The drama takes place in the constellation Virgo at a distance of 570 light years from Earth. During the second mission of the telescope Kepler (K2) revealed that the luminosity of the star – a white dwarf falls regularly every 4.5 hours. This means that there is a facility located approximately 830 kilometers from the thousands of stars revolving around it.
Subsequently, data were obtained, confirming the presence of belt debris rotating in close orbits. Their total weight is approximately equal to the mass of Ceres – the largest dwarf planet in the asteroid belt of the solar system.
Thus, astrophysics observations confirmed the theory that white dwarfs are contaminated with iron and other metals because absorb the rocky planets and asteroids. With the opening of this theory has been confirmed – the scientists found the entire system in the process of destruction – a white dwarf itself, disk fragmentation around him and at least one large object orbiting a star.
In the future – about a billion years – from the asteroid will be only a thin layer of metal on the surface of the white dwarf. And in five billion years, the destruction of our solar system, could suffer a similar fate Mercury, Venus and Earth.
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