# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQmcE8CjKMD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36877890-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/856c425748.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-11-03T16:13:42.000+00:00

## Caption

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. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
🖥️ T. Pyle (Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory); CC BY 4.0

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- **Comments:** 13

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Videographer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Video Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Digital Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Screenwriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Thumbnail Designer |

## Tags

space, hubbletelescope, europeanspaceagency

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