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Saturday, September 20, 2025

White Dwarf Star Eating Pluto-Like Object | NASA Goddard

White Dwarf Star Eating Pluto-Like Object | NASA Goddard

In a nearby corner of our galactic neighborhood, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught a white dwarf star having a cosmic snack. 

This burned-out star is about half the mass of our Sun, crammed into a body the size of Earth, and it is tearing apart something a lot like Pluto. 

Thanks to Hubble, we are not only witnessing a star’s strange appetite, but glimpsing our own solar system’s possible future. 


Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Video Credits:
Ring of rocky debris around a white dwarf star: Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Red Giant Sun: Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Artist Concept of White Dwarf Eating Pluto-Like Object: Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and Tim Pyle
Duration: 1 minute, 29 seconds
Release Date: Sept. 18, 2025

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