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White dwarfs are 'heavy metal' zombie stars cannibalizing their dead planetary systems | Space
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| | Zombie white dwarf stars keep their heavy metal exteriors fresh by cannibalizing objects in their dead planetary systems, like comets and asteroids.
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New theory explains why white dwarf stars can cheat death - Press Release - Institute for Advanced Study
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| | In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years.
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Earth-size stars and alien oceans - an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs | Space
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| | A new paper looks at possible molecules for life on white dwarf stars.
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3 Small, Icy Worlds Discovered in Pluto's Territory | Space
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| The three new bodies, likely dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris, reside in the Kuiper Belt, in the outer solar system. Even larger bodies - some as large as Mars or Earth - may exist even farther away from the sun, far beyond Pluto's orbit.