Scientists Find Evidence Of A Second-Generation Planet Born From A Dying Star

If confirmed, it would be the first white dwarf found to host a second-generation planet.

NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

Way back in 1999, NASA's Hubble telescope gathered data from a white dwarf star codenamed HS 0209+0832 with 100 chemical features that couldn't be identified. Now, a team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Warwick has published a paper in Nature, revealing that those chemical features indicate that the white dwarf hosts a second-generation planet.

A white…