Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system

When yellow dwarf stars like our sun die, they swell to an enormous size and destroy their inner planets by either crushing them with massive gravity or evaporating them with astounding heat. While these suns later settle down to become a white dwarf, the process is nearly always game over for planets in an inner solar system. Or maybe not, according to a paper published on Monday titled “Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf.” As explained by NASA’s Hubble Mission team, the paper’s authors pored over Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 from 1999. According to the paper, data from those scans “revealed the presence of carbon, aluminum, silicon, calcium, titanium, nickel and zinc in the atmosphere, as well as ~100 lines that could not be identified.” …