Dwarf Planets

Astrophysics Division
Dwarf Planets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
The Kuiper Belt
White Dwarfs
In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that this meal is taking place. The stellar remnant is a white dwarf about half the mass of our Sun, but that is densely packed into […]
Posted September 18, 2025
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