Felipe Lagos-Vilches

Co-author, astronomer at the University of Warwick and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

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Last updated Nov 5, 2026

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Dead star's double debris ring offers a preview of the Solar System's end

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Co-author of the Nature Astronomy study

About 73 million years ago, a star roughly half the Sun's mass ran out of fuel and collapsed into a white dwarf. What is left of its planets now circles it in two separate rings of glowing gas, with a clear gap between them.

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