article_snippet.sent: It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this stunning image shows that a white dwarf star  ripped apart a planet as a white dwarf star   came too close.
article_snippet.sent: A white dwarf star - the dense core of a star like the Sun that has run out of nuclear fuel - may have ripped apart a planet as it came too close, Astronomers believe.
article_snippet.sent: Nasa says a white dwarf star - the dense core of a star like the Sun that has run out of nuclear fuel - ripped apart a planet at the edge of the Milky Way galaxythe Milky Way galaxy.
article_snippet.sent: When a star reaches a star white dwarf stage, nearly all of the material from a star is packed inside a radius one hundredth that of a star.
article_snippet.sent: Using several telescopes, including Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have found evidence that a white dwarf star - the dense core of a star like the Sun that has run out of nuclear fuel - may have ripped apart a planet as it came too close.
article_snippet.sent: When a star reaches a star white dwarf stage, nearly all of the material from a star is packed inside a radius one hundredth that of a star.
article_snippet.sent: The planetary debris is then heated and glows in X-rays as The planetary debris falls onto a white dwarf. '
article_snippet.sent: The planetary debris is then heated and glows in X-rays as The planetary debris falls onto the white dwarf.
highlights_snippet.sent: Planet may have been ripped apart by a white dwarf star .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: White dwarf is core of a star like the Sun that has run out of nuclear fuel .