They discover a planet devoured by its star, the origin of a second-generation world

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and funded by the European Research Council, has discovered a second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf. The findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, demonstrate that the death of a star does not necessarily mean the end of a planetary system.

Instead, the aftermath of a stellar death can serve as the starting point for the birth of a new world. Researchers have identified what is described as a planet reborn from the ashes of its star, which had previously devoured a former planet, marking a unique origin for a second-generation celestial body.