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Discover how astronomers found the first double debris disc around a white dwarf, WD J1328-1450, 1,600 light-years away — two rings of shattered planetary material where every other known system has just one. Learn how ESO's Very Large Telescope revealed gas moving at two speeds, why the rings have different compositions, and how two surviving planetary bodies may be sculpting them — a glimpse of what will happen to our own solar system when the Sun dies. Keywords: white dwarf, debris disc, WD J1328-1450, ESO, VLT, Nature Astronomy, planetary system, solar system future, astronomy, space, science
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