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Pulverized Asteroid around Distant Star Was Full of Water

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They found magnesium, iron, silicon and other heavy elements, which wouldn’t exist naturally on the surface of a white dwarf, suggesting that they fell onto the star from an orbiting object. The researchers also found a huge excess of oxygen—an amount, they say, that indicates the asteroid polluting the star’s surface was originally composed of 26 percent water. That’s pretty wet—Ea

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