Jupiter-Like Planet Orbiting a Dead Star Offers a Grim Look at the Solar System's Future

Jupiter-Like Planet Orbiting a Dead Star Offers a Grim Look at the Solar System's Future

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http://www.newsweek.com/jupiter-planet-orbiting-dead-star-offers-grim-look-solar-systems-future-red-giant-white-dwarf-1638836

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that resembles how our solar system will look long after the sun dies. The system consists of a large gas giant, similar to Jupiter, orbiting a dead white dwarf star.

Located close to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the system represents the first time astronomers have definitively confirmed the existence of a planet surviving the violent expansion of a star that occurs during its death throes.