Space NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars ‘Polluted’ With Planet Debris by Gary Kopycinski on May 9, 2013 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Space: How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades May 16, 2024 Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape January 12, 2023 Christmas Launch Now for the James Webb Space Telescope December 21, 2021 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place– the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.