‘Dead’ Star Caught Snacking on Pluto-Like Object

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a white dwarf—the remnant of a dying star’s core—enjoying a meal of some fragment researchers later identified as coming from a Pluto-like object. According to a paper on the finding published September 18 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical…