491-white-dwarf-star-dust-disk-dixon – A dynamic astronomical illustration depicting a highly energetic debris field surrounding a dying white dwarf star. In the foreground, fragmented asteroids and rocky boulders undergo catastrophic tidal disruption, shedding fine gravel and dust into a vast, swirling circumstellar disk. In the upper right background, the brilliant violet-white stellar remnant unleashes powerful radiation rays that blast outward through the inner gaps of the dust rings, illuminating incoming cometary bodies vaporizing as they plunge toward the star. digital, for Astronomy Magazine
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