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In results reported in a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, graduate student Tatsuya Akiba, along with JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences professor Ann-Marie Madigan and undergraduate student Selah McIntyre, believe they have found a reason why white dwarfs eat their nearby planetesimals.