Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf Discovered

In a remarkable discovery, an international team of astronomers from the University of Warwick and the Millennium Nucleus for Planet Formation (NPF) at the University of Valparaiso has reported the first indirect evidence of a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star.

The White Dwarf: WDJ0914+1914

  • Using the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, researchers, for the first time, found a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star.
  • The evidence of the planet is indirect, in the form of a disc of gas (hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur) formed from its evaporating atmosphere. Scientists analysed ....

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