{"id":222569,"date":"2025-09-27T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hubble-reveals-white-dwarf-devouring-a-frozen-pluto-like-world"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:25:47","slug":"hubble-reveals-white-dwarf-devouring-a-frozen-pluto-like-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hubble-reveals-white-dwarf-devouring-a-frozen-pluto-like-world","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Reveals White Dwarf Devouring a Frozen, Pluto-Like World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-reveals-white-dwarf-devouring-a-frozen-pluto-like-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a distant white dwarf star.<\/p>\n<p>This cosmic \u201ccrime scene\u201d not only reveals the dramatic fate of planetary fragments but also strengthens the case that the ingredients for life are scattered throughout the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a distant white dwarf star. This cosmic \u201ccrime scene\u201d not only reveals the dramatic fate of planetary fragments but also strengthens the case that the ingredients for life are scattered throughout the galaxy. Discovery of a frozen, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}