For the first time, researchers are seeing how white dwarf systems evolve directly confirmed in the night sky using NASA's Kepler space telescope. The star, white dwarf WD 1145+017, is currently destroying and disintegrating an orbiting planet bit by bit. Scientists are watching the death of a solar system. This particular white dwarf star is about 570 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. (Oct 22, 2015; Journal of Science)