The Planet That Was Born When Its Star Died
00:00 — Introduction 00:37 — The Element Nobody Was Looking For 01:59 — A Planet From the Ashes 03:26 — Why This Had to Be a Team Effort 04:40 — Wrap Up Sources: - Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02983-7 - The phoenix planet: Astronomers find a world reborn from the ashes of a dead star (University of Warwick press release): https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/the-phoenix-planet/ - Like a Mythical Phoenix, This Planet May Have Risen From the Ashes of a Dead Star (Smithsonian)…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.