A White Dwarf Makes A Meal Of A Pluto-Like Object

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This artist's illustration shows a white dwarf surrounded by a debris disk. Debris from pieces of a captured, Pluto-like object is falling onto the white dwarf. Hubble observations found a strong signal of oxygen which is evidence of ample water content in the object. Image Credit: NASA, Tim Pyle (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a white dwarf that’s devouring a chunk of an icy body. It suggests that even in distant solar systems, icy bodies from the distant reaches can deliver water to planets in the inner solar system.

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