Astronomers spot signs of a planet born from a dying star's remains

A star hundreds of light-years away in space may have spawned a giant Jupiter-size planet from the gas and dust it coughed out with its dying breath.Astronomers spotted signs of such a planet circling a white dwarf — the leftover core of a medium-size star after it burns through its nuclear fuel — called HS 0209+0832. Though a team of researchers used data from NASA's Hubble and TESS telescopes to build a strong case for the planet, no observatory has seen…