NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...
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For the first time, astronomers have observed something like a Pluto colliding with a white dwarf, the shriveled corpse of a medium-size star. The white dwarf, dubbed WD 1647+375, is about 260 ...
The space telescope is peering into our own solar system's future. Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.
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