KPD 0005+5106: Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick

Chandra issued an image and press release on 11/22/21, "KPD 00005+5106: Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick.” A team of scientists used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and European Space Agency's XMM-Newton to investigate some unusual X-ray activity of a white dwarf star. The data suggest this white dwarf is blasting a companion object, which is either a low-mass star or planet, with waves of heat and radiation while pulling it apart through gravitational force.  If this companion is a planet the size of Jupiter, it would only survive for a few hundred million years.

For more information visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/roasted-and-shredded-by-a-stellar-sidekick.html

Jupiter-like planet is lossing mass to its neighboring white dwarf.
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