WHite Dwarf in Space PSP Wallpaper

Here you will see a depiction of a cloud of dust around this white dwarf that may have been generated from this type of comet disruption. This was observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope at NASA. This artist's concept shows a comet being shredded around a dead star, or white dwarf, commonly known as G29-38 in the space community. This data found suggests that a host of other surviving comets may still orbit in this long-dead solar system.
According to theory, the G29-38 star became brighter and brighter as it aged, until it bloated up into a dying star called a red giant. Around 3 times as big as our sun, the white dwarf began life as a star. Its final ending involved the same escalation of steps that our sun will eventually undergo in the future billions of years from now. This red giant was large enough to engulf and evaporate any terrestrial planets like Earth that happened to be in its way. Later, the red giant shed its outer atmosphere, leaving behind a shrunken skeleton of star, called a white dwarf.
Credit for this original photo goes to NASA/JPL-Caltech