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Cosmic carnage: planetary rubble spotted at a dying star

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula.
A synthetic colour image of WeSb 1 shown in red and blue colours

The planetary nebula WeSb 1 (artificially coloured), where astronomers have now detected what is probably the detritus of planets and asteroids around the central star. Credit: J. Budaj et al./Nature Astron.

Astronomers viewing a cosmic end-of-life tableau have spotted shards of dead planets swirling around a dying star that is enveloped in a glowing gas shell1.

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Nature 637, 521 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00006-5

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  1. Budaj, J., Bernhard, K., Jones, D. & Munday, J. Nature Astron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02446-x (2025).

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