WD1145+017
WD1145+017
A White Dwarf Devouring a planet.
This White Star, named WD 1145017 is located around 570 light years away, in the Virgo Constellation. Discovered in 2015 by Prof. Andrew Vanderburg using the Kepler Telescope, it became a special object of interest due to its intriguing features. The changes in its apparent brightness make us believe that the star has a giant debris disk. This disk could be the remnants of a defunct planet still orbiting around after the red giant phase of the star. Different studies yield exciting results: The giant clouds, made up of dust, gases, and debris, block light up to 50% of the light star when it is in transit. Through different measurements, it is believed that around 6 giant residual bodies -plus millions of different sized remains in a more likely thick disk or group of disks - could be in a decaying slow orbit towards the star. How is it really WD 1145017? How is it really this system? We do not know, but we can imagine it with light interacting with the thick debris disk in many different beautiful ways... How would the composition of gas and debris interact with light? Would we be able to marvel at an explosion of color caused by light being diffracted? It is up to you.
WD1145+017 paper by Prof. Andrew Vanderburg at Cornell University: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01997
WD1145+017 file at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_1145%2B017
WD1145+017 Spectrophotometry article at Royal Astronomical Society: https://shorturl.at/gjrwB
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WD1145+017 - A White Dwarf devouring a planet video.
HDR values within the gases and dust rendering simulations.
Simulation of the different layered rings of debris, gas and dust.
Simulation of close-up data from the star (1)
Simulation of close-up data from the star (2)
Simulation of close-up data from the star (3)
Simulation of close-up data from the star (4)
Simulation of close-up data from the star (5)
Simulation of close-up data from the star (6)
Volume and light colorization test.
Sim of the planet remnant orbiting the White Dwarf
Sim of the planet remnant orbiting the White Dwarf (Colorized)