Astronomers discover a mysterious solar system.

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Recently, astronomers discovered mysterious solar system which is different from our solar system.

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Almost 90 light years away, astronomers spotted 10 billion years old white dwarf star means remaining of dead star.

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That dwarf star is surrounded by graveyard of broken apart chunks of planets, called planetesimals.

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This solar system is filled with with elements like lithium and potassium. There is no planets in our solar system have such a contents.

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This solar system is old. means the white dwarf (called WDJ2147-4035) and its surrounding solar system formed, and died,

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Before the sun and Earth were even born. In fact, the chunks of former planets around WDJ2147-4035 are the oldest planetesimal.

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Orionid meteor shower active every year in October. This meteor shower produces amazing displays of up to 80 meteors an hour,

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This dwarf star discovered using an observatory in space called Gaia.

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Astronomers discover a mysterious solar system.

Astronomers discover a mysterious solar system.

Recently, astronomers discovered mysterious solar system which is different from our solar system.

Almost 90 light years away, astronomers spotted 10 billion years old white dwarf star means remaining of dead star.

That dwarf star is surrounded by graveyard of broken apart chunks of planets, called planetesimals.

This solar system is filled with with elements like lithium and potassium. There is no planets in our solar system have such a contents.

This solar system is old. means the white dwarf (called WDJ2147-4035) and its surrounding solar system formed, and died,

Why it is so different?

Before the sun and Earth were even born. In fact, the chunks of former planets around WDJ2147-4035 are the oldest planetesimal.

Orionid meteor shower active every year in October. This meteor shower produces amazing displays of up to 80 meteors an hour,

This dwarf star discovered using an observatory in space called Gaia.

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