Six dead Stars with dust disks.

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<font size="2"><strong> Interesting find.<br /><br />Six white dwarfs with silicate rich disks, suggesting asteroids impacting each other around hese dead stars.<br /><br />Spectra of disks not so unlike our mainbelt asteroids such as 243 Ida, 433 Eros or 951 Gaspra.<br /><br />Could terrestrial planets be caught up in the carnage? If Earth survives our Sun's red giant phase, is this our planet's far distant future?</strong></font><br /><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%">Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth</span>.<br /><br /><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[weeman]

<p>I would say that it makes perfect sense that we could be looking at six solar systems which are the future of our own! Although, SETI might be a couple billion years too late if these solar systems housed any life! </p><p>Hopefully they can find signs of larger celestial bodies within the mess of asteroids. That might shed some light on whether or not the solar systems have planets. Of course, wouldn't they blend in with the asteroids? Wouldn't they just be large rocks since their atmospheres would have been baked away by their star's red giant phase? </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>