Planet orbiting a dead star in the dying stages of a star it will often go supernova which means it significantly expands in size and either destroys or expels any objects that are orbiting it.
At the time or at least that's how things were thought to happen a recent discovery however has shown that this is not always the case and is forced to rethink of what happens to everything in a solar system.
When the host star is run out of fuel after the supernova stage. A star collapses back in on itself to create a super dense white dwarf these are littered throughout our galaxy and are often studied.
But one in particular returns some interesting results lying around 2,000 light years away from earth. Researchers measured emissions of hydrogensulfur and oxygen that were coming from it which is quite unusual so they looked closer they found the elements were emanating from a ring of gas around the star.
Which it turned out was trailing a Neptune-like planet that was orbiting it every 10 days it's something that had never been seen before and is yet to be seen anywhere either quite how the planet managed to survive so close to a star that was once supernova is not entirely clear but it proves that the assumptions that have been made about the evolution of star systems need to be revisited.
