Earth-like planets in dead star 'cosmic graveyards' get stranger

[Admin]

The first exoplanets ever discovered orbit a pulsar, and that's even stranger than scientists thought.

Earth-like planets in dead star 'cosmic graveyards' get stranger : Read more

 

[Catastrophe]

New findings show that Earth-size planets may be even less likely to survive the violent conditions at the end of some stars' lives than previously believed. This means that the first exoplanet discovered outside the solar system 30 years ago may be far weirder than we realized.

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PSR B1257+12B, the first exoplanet ever discovered, orbits a dead star that blasts it with powerful radiation. (Image credit: NASA Exoplanet Catalog)

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[sam85geo]

I don't cease to wonder how Earth and specifically H. Sapiens got so damned "lucky" in such a "meat grinder" Universe. The operation of Probability is beyond my thankful amazement.

 

[Helio]

I don't cease to wonder how Earth and specifically H. Sapiens got so damned "lucky" in such a "meat grinder" Universe. The operation of Probability is beyond my thankful amazement.

Perhaps every star system gets its own unique grinder.

 

[Helio]

The lack of exos around pulsars is what astronomers expected all along. A planet adjacent to a SN is always in harms way.

 

[Catastrophe]

Even stars doomed to die as supernovae can have ... - Phys.org
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Habitable planets could exist around pulsars
https://www.cam.ac.uk › research › news › habitable-pl...

19 Dec 2017 — It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars - spinning neutron stars that emit short, quick pulses of radiation ...

How Planets Can Survive a Supernova - National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com › science › article

5 Aug 2011 — Putting a twist on fundamental physics, a new study predicts what happens to planets when a star explodes.

Can a Planetary System Survive a Host Star Supernova ...
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu › abs › abstract


by A Panin · 2009 — In the current presentation we analyze, based on known physics, the effect of a supernova explosion on a planet orbiting such a star in its habitable zone. Our ...


I would rather not risk it.

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