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Scientists have found evidence suggesting a possible second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf star named HS 0209+0832, located 270 light years away in the constellation Cetus. By analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope, researchers identified chemical signatures indicating that gases ejected by the dead star may have formed an alien world similar to Jupiter in size. This planet would be unique because it was likely created from material expelled by its dying host star rather than during stellar formation, as is common with most planets including those in our solar system.
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Scientists discovered evidence of what could be a second-generation planet around a white dwarf star named HS 0209+0832, located about 270 light years away from Earth in the Milky Way's constellation Cetus. The team reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope collected in 1999, finding chemical signatures suggesting gases cast off by the dying star coalesced into a planet roughly Jupiter-sized. Researchers identified around 100 unidentified chemical features, including heavy elements like niobium and others heavier than iron, indicating that these materials could have been part of the planet formation process after the star's death. Typically, planets form from material present when stars are born, but this finding supports the idea that a planet can also form from debris left by a dying star. The team observed a repeating brightness cycle of about 4.4 days, potentially indicating temperature variations on the hypothetical planet due to its proximity to the star at just .04 Astronomical Units (AU), which is 25 times closer than Earth is to the Sun.
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Scientists discovered first-of-its-kind evidence of a possible second-generation planet around a white dwarf star some 270 light years away from Earth.
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Scientists → discover → Earth
Astronomers found chemical signatures that indicated that gases cast off from the dead star HS 0209+0832 had coalesced into an alien world roughly the size of Jupiter, according to a study published last week in Nature Astronomy.
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gases → find → Astronomy
A team of UK-based scientists took a second look at data garnered from NASA’s Hubble Telescope in 1999 and noted about 100 unidentified chemical features around the dense dead star, which is located in the Milky Way and can be seen in the constellation Cetus.
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which → base → Cetus
Researchers theorized that the discovery of abundant “astronomically special” elements like niobium and other elements heavier than iron suggest that a planet had been formed and HS 0209+0832 had been feeding off it.
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0832 → theorize → it
The experts believe that the planet was formed from stellar material ejected from the white dwarf as it dies.
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it → believe → dwarf
In contrast, most planets — like those in our solar system — are created when a star is born.
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star → create → system
“These heavy elements can only be synthesized in the exotic conditions that briefly emerge inside dying stars,” Dr. Nicholas Stone, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and study co-author, told Sci.News.
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Stone → synthesize → News
Scientists also found a repeating brightness cycle of about 4.4 days, which could line up with the day and night temperature variation of a massive planet orbiting very close to its star — at .04 Astronomical Units, or 25 times closer than the Earth is to the Sun.
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Earth → find → Sun
If the purported planet exists, it was losing atmosphere, but researchers were hopeful about its fate.
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researchers → purport → fate
“If the second-generation planet is there, I think it is likely to survive,” University of Warwick astronomer and study co-author Jamie Williams said, according to the article.
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Williams → think → article
“Eventually the white dwarf will cool and then maintain a consistent temperature, with the planet in its stable habitable zone for millions of years.”
The steady temperature could mean a close-in rocky planet could remain habitable for tens of billions of year, far longer than Earth which will be engulfed or burned by the Sun when it dies within 5 billion years, Williams noted to Universe Today.
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Williams → cool → Today
The discovery of the first-ever second generation planet had yet to be officially verified and more research was needed, experts said.
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experts → have → planet
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