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University of Exeter: Star’s death will play a mean pinball with rhythmic planets

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Astronomers have modelled how the change in gravitational forces in the system as a result of the star becoming a white dwarf will cause its planets to fly loose from their orbits and bounce off each other’s gravity, like balls bouncing off a bumper in a game of pinball. In the process, they will knock […]