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NASA Missions Spy First Possible Planet Hugging a Stellar Cinder – Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupiter-size object may have arrived long after the star died.
The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupiter-size object may have arrived long after the star died.
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s
Transiting
Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer
Space Telescope has reported what may be
the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense
leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth.
The Jupiter-size object, called WD…
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