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Astronomers Discover Possible Planet Born From a Dead Star’s Ashes
The candidate gas giant may be the first observed second-generation planet, and Hubble found more than 1,000 times the sun’s niobium abundance.
- On Monday, Warwick researchers reported evidence of a 'phoenix planet' orbiting white dwarf HS 0209+0832, a potential second-generation world formed from debris left behind after the star's death.
- Unlike first-generation planets like Earth that emerge during a star's birth, second-generation planets form from material cast off during a star's final stages, as this candidate did.
- TESS data indicates a gas giant orbiting the system every 4.4 days, and astronomers identified unusual niobium levels in the star's atmosphere suggesting accretion from nearby debris.
- This finding suggests our own solar system might host similar worlds after the Sun burns out in roughly five billion years, though the new world is too hot for life.
- Researchers plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the system over the next year, which could confirm the planet and establish an entirely new planetary class around white dwarfs.
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Alien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can be called a phoenix planet.
·Toronto, Canada
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Astronomers have found evidence of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a White Dwarf in just 4.4 days.
Scientists have spotted an unusual planet candidate around a white dwarf about 270 light-years from Earth that may have been made up of material left over from the star's death. If the discovery is confirmed, the celestial body could be the first second-generation planet determined to have been born from the “ashes” of a white dwarf.
·Istanbul, Türkiye
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