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A White Dwarf’s Cosmic Feast: Astronomers Witness a Star Devouring a Pluto-Like World

A White Dwarf’s Cosmic Feast: Astronomers Witness a Star Devouring a Pluto-Like World

Published Sep 29, 2025 Updated Sep 29, 2025 Technology
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A White Dwarf’s Cosmic Feast: Astronomers Witness a Star Devouring a Pluto-Like World

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Astronomers have recently witnessed a rare and dramatic cosmic event: a white dwarf star devouring a Pluto-sized planetary body. This discovery not only reveals the violent aftermath of a star’s life cycle but also offers new insight into the eventual fate of planetary systems like our own. White dwarfs, which are the dense remnants of stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel, are typically stable yet extraordinarily powerful. With a mass similar to the Sun compressed into a volume no larger than Earth, their gravity can easily disrupt and consume nearby celestial bodies.


In this case, the white dwarf was found to be “polluted” with heavy elements that should normally sink deep into its interior. This unusual signature was the telltale sign that it had recently engulfed a planetary bo

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