Planets May Form Around Dead Stars

APR 06, 2006

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020003

Physics Today

Discovery : Astronomers have made a curious finding of a dusty disk of material that may hold planets in orbit around the dense, dead relic of a massive star.

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