NASA: Star … “eats” its planets – Watch the video

A phenomenon that scientists call … “cosmic cannibalism” was identified by various observatories, with the most important being that of Hubble Space Telescope. Research teams from various universities studied the data from system G238-44located 86 light-years from Earth.

In this system there was a star similar to him Helium, around which planets formed. As is expected to happen with the Sun, in about five billion years, the star at some point consumed its “fuel” and entered the process of its death, initially converted into red giant. The star’s expansion destroyed part of the system that had formed around it, and its gradual transformation into a white dwarf (astral corpse) led the farther planets that had survived to approach the star.

Despite the fact that the star is considered “dead” by scientists, it still has a gravitational field, capable of interacting with nearby objects. This interaction causes the planets to decompose and their materials to be absorbed by the white dwarf.

As is understandable his study G238-44 is extremely important as it provides important information about this type of systems and of course about future of our solar system.

For more than two years, research teams from UCLA, the University of California, San Diego and a university in Germany have worked to unravel the mystery by analyzing data found in the white dwarf star G238-44.