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White dwarf star may have shredded passing planet

19 April 2015 Astronomy Now

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.