Astronomers find double rings of planetary wreckage around a dead white dwarf
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers found two distinct debris discs around white dwarf J1328−1450, with a gap that may be held open by surviving planetesimals, including one perhaps as large as Pluto or the Moon. The rings' different chemistry suggests wreckage from separate destroyed planets. Nicola Gentile Fusillo of the University of Trieste led the Nature Astronomy study, the first complex double-disc system with possible survivors after a star's death and a possible preview of our Solar System's far future.
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