Tag: Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
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White Dwarf Feasts on Pluto-like World, Hinting at Icy Exoplanets
A White Dwarf and an Ice-World Snack Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a white dwarf star—an ultra-dense, compact stellar remnant—that appears to have consumed an icy body resembling Pluto. The finding, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, provides a striking clue about the kinds of frozen material that exist…