Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.
According to NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a "burned-out star" snacking on a "fragment of a Pluto-like object" that's not too far from Earth — only about 260 light-years away, which is very close when considering the vastness of the cosmos. However, it's not actually the snacking itself that's fascinating, but rather the icy composition of the exo-Pluto. The object appears to be filled with volatiles like carbon, sulphur, nitrogen and oxygen, which indicate the presence of water. According to Hubble data, the exo-Pluto comprises 64% water ice.
