A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf-the burned-out remnant of a Sun-like star. Now, a team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a closer look at this planet for the first time, and what they found makes an already strange system even stranger. A feeding frenzy WD 1856 b was an accidental discovery. Astronomers pointed the TESS observatory at a sample of roughly 2,00
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