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A Newly Discovered Trail of Cosmic Debris Illustrates How the End of the Solar System Could Look


A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted.

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