First Planet Found Orbiting Dead Star
Astronomers have detected a planet orbiting a white dwarf star named WD 1856+534 . If confirmed, the discovery shows that some planets could survive the destruction of their sun-like stars. SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Franck Marchis will sit down with Andrew Vanderburg, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the paper published in Nature to talk about this remarkable discovery.