June 23, 2024
1 Solar System Way, Planet Earth, USA
Solar System

JWST photographs possible giant planets around white dwarfs: sky and telescope

Illustration of a cloudy exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a white dwarf star. NASA/JPL-Caltech JWST has directly imaged what appear to be two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. This discovery has important implications for the fate of our solar system's giant planets as the Sun evolves into a red giant and eventually becomes a

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