20,000 stars later they didn’t find a single planet (and that’s cool too!)
Hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cold star cousins.
Hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cold star cousins.
The Kepler dataset appears to be split between single planet systems and multi-planet systems. Could this be because systems become dynamically hot over time?
It’s uncertain if exoplanets survive the deaths of their host stars, but now astronomers have found exactly that: a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a White Dwarf!
As we find more planetary systems, the question of “how unique is our solar system?” can begin to be put into context.
One of the closest stars to our own Sun just got a third planet!