ngc6388
In this Chandra image of ngc6388, researchers have found evidence that a white dwarf star may have ripped apart a planet as it came too close. When a star reaches its white dwarf stage, nearly all of the material from the star is packed inside a radius one hundredth that of the original star.
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IASF Palermo/M.Del Santo et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ngc6388/
Image CreditX-ray: NASA/CXC/IASF Palermo/M.Del Santo et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
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