ESOcast 212 Light: First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found

Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, found evidence of a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star. The planet orbits the hot white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star, at close range, causing its atmosphere to be stripped away and form a disc of gas around the star.

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The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases.

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ESO

Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Caroline Reid, Vanessa Emeka-Okafor and Bárbara Ferreira.
Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com) — Rings of Beauty.
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, Space Engine (spaceengine.org), C. Malin (christophmalin.com), and ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen).
Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.

 

About the Video

Id:eso1919a
Release date:4 December 2019, 19:00
Related releases:eso1919
Duration:01 m 21 s
Frame rate:25 fps

About the Object

Name:WDJ0914+1914
Type:Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category:ESOcast
Exoplanets

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