In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end
For the first time, astronomers have observed something like a Pluto colliding with a white dwarf, the shriveled corpse of a medium-size star. The white dwarf, dubbed WD 1647+375, is about 260 light-years away from Earth in space. Despite its distance, this dead star’s realm might have had striking similarities to our own solar system, including…