'Zombie' Star's Asteroid 'Lunch' Revealed in Close-Up View

When an asteroid wandered too close to an Earth-size white dwarf — the dense core of a star at the end of its life — it was drawn in and destroyed by the star's gravity. Researchers have now combined data from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories to paint a 12-year picture of the ring's movement from multiple perspectives. "The image we get from the processed data shows us that these systems are truly disclike, and reveals ma