A cosmic snack you won’t forget 🧆 Just 260 light-years away, a white dwarf star – the dense remnant of a Sun-like star – is feasting on a fragment of an icy, Pluto-like world. Using its ultraviolet vision, @hubbleesa detected debris rich in water and nitrogen – clues that this exo-Pluto once resembled the icy bodies of our own Kuiper Belt. It’s not just a glimpse into another system’s past. It’s a preview of our own far-future: billions of years from now, when our Sun becomes a white dwarf, the icy outskirts of our Solar System may face the same fate. Would you call this a cosmic tragedy… or a stellar meal? 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🎞️ T. Pyle (@caltechedu, @nasajpl) - @creativecommons BY 4.0; @nasagoddard; @NASA, ESA, @space_telescopes, and G. Bacon (STScI); ESA; NASA; Snehalata Sahu, Boris T. Gänsicke, Jamie T. Williams, Detlev G. Koester, Jay Farihi, Steven J. Desch, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Dimitri Veras, Sean N. Raymond and Maria Teresa Belmonte; ESA/Hubble (M. Kornme...