When a Sun-like star dies as a white dwarf, it often shreds its leftover planets into a disc of rocky debris. Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have now found a white dwarf, WD J1328−1450, wrapped in not one but two distinct rings, apparently shepherded by two surviving bodies — one asteroid-sized, the other as large as Pluto. The first stable double debris disc of its kind, it is a rare preview of how our own Solar System may one day end. We separate what was seen from what is inferred.
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 with the University of Warwick, the Nature Astronomy study reports the first stable double debris disc around a dead star — a rare glimpse of our Solar System’s distant future. The two-body picture is the most likely interpretation, not yet proven.){kind=link}