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This artist's concept illustrates a dead star, or "white dwarf," surrounded by the bits and pieces of a disintegrating asteroid. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechApril 20, 2009
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has found that at least one in 100 white dwarf stars shows evidence of orbiting asteroids and rocky planets.
For more information, go to http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1598&Itemid=2 .
Spitzer site
Media contact: Whitney Clavin 818-354-4673
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov
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