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  • White Dwarf Swallows Pluto-Like Icy World: Implications for Habitable Planets

    White Dwarf Swallows Pluto-Like Icy World: Implications for Habitable Planets

    New finding from Hubble reveals a white dwarf feasting on an icy Pluto-like world Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a striking example of a white dwarf—one of the universe’s most compact stellar remnants—appearing to have consumed an icy, Pluto-like body. The star resides in the Milky Way, roughly 255 light-years from Earth,…