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Water discovered in remnants of destroyed exoplanet

Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf 170 light years away. The analysis of the dust and debris surrounding the white dwarf star GD 61 was conducted by scientists at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge and appears […]

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