When planets and moons orbit a white dwarf, the star's gravity may rip them apart into tiny pieces, which may happen in Earth's far future.
After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end.There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being swallowed up by the sun as it expands outwards, or simply being torn apart by gravity.The sun is expected to fade into a white dwarf after its death, so studying white dwarfs out in space allows astronomers to get an idea of how planets and moons in the rest of the solar system fare after the death of a star.
'While we think we are on the right path in our studies, the fate of these systems is far more complex than we could have ever imagined.'One of the white dwarves, ZTF J0328−1219, was seen to have a stable solar system for several years, but possibly having had a catastrophic event in 2010.
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