The 'graveyard' where many planets were torn to reveal the unexpected

Unseen, unimaginable things have revealed themselves in a vast cosmic graveyard with 23 white dwarf stars and countless rubbles that are torn planetary fragments.

White dwarfs are the corpses of depleted stars, so the massive pile of debris around them is the remnants of torn-up exoplanets. Research just published in Nature Astronomy shows that the ill-fated planets were built with far more abundant materials than previously understood.

The new cosmic graveyard has given scientists a different perspective on extrasolar planets

While scientists have entered this cosmic graveyard in search of traces of an Earth-like world, they have found minerals never before seen on Earth, in the Solar System and nearby star systems. . Some of the dead worlds are rocky planets like Earth, but created in completely different ways and with materials that are hard to imagine.

According to astronomer Slyi Xu from the National Infrared Astronomical Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) in Arizona (USA), alien rock samples have just been found with absolutely no control in the Solar System.

According to Live Science, by calculating the proportions of elements such as magnesium, calcium, silicon, iron . in the white dwarf's atmosphere, at least 25% of the material is from planets that have been torn apart by it. , scientists have reconstructed the dead rocky planets.

The results show that there are a lot of "Earth clones" out there, but made up completely differently, and if they have life, it could very well be a completely different world than Earth. Continents can be made differently, from very different things, and create very different life forms, nurturing them in ways that are hard for Earthlings to imagine.

The findings are said to be very significant for the hunt for extraterrestrial life because we have long tended to only look for copies of the Earth.