Hubble finds a white dwarf devouring a frozen world ????

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Just 260 light-years away, a white dwarf star – the dense remnant of a Sun-like star – is feasting on a fragment of an icy, Pluto-like world.

Using its ultraviolet vision, the Hubble Space Telescope detected debris rich in water and nitrogen – clues that this exo-Pluto once resembled the icy bodies of our own Kuiper Belt.

It’s not just a glimpse into another system’s past. It’s a preview of our own far future: billions of years from now, when our Sun becomes a white dwarf, the icy outskirts of our Solar System may face the same fate.

Would you call this a cosmic tragedy… or a stellar meal?

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???? T. Pyle – Caltech/JPL – CC BY 4.0; NASA Goddard; NASA, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute (G. Bacon); ESA; NASA; Snehalata Sahu, Boris T. Gänsicke, Jamie T. Williams, Detlev G. Koester, Jay Farihi, Steven J. Desch, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Dimitri Veras, Sean N. Raymond, Maria Teresa Belmonte; ESA/Hubble – M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen

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Deep Space
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ESA, European Space Agency, Hubble
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