Dead Star’s Last Meal Reveals What Alien Planets Are Really Made Of : ScienceAlert

What’s the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its star, of course!

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi, have spotted such a gruesome…

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