NASA's space telescope just captured a dead star eating a planet - TweakTown

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a distant dead star cannibalizing a nearby planet - tearing shreds of debris from it.

Astronomers have sifted through data acquired by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and have honed in on one star called G238-44. A team of astronomers looked through Hubble data, along with other observ… [+2725 chars]

full article...