New Research Reveals Surprising Potential for Earth-Like Life around White Dwarf Stars

Feb 13, 2025 - 15:30
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New Research Reveals Surprising Potential for Earth-Like Life around White Dwarf Stars
An artist’s impression of a habitable planet orbiting a white dwarf. The ghostly blue ring is a planetary nebula - hydrogen gas the star ejected as it evolved from a red giant to a white dwarf (David A. Aguilar / CfA)

White dwarfs may present amenable environments for life on planets formed within or migrated to their habitable zones, generating warmer surface environments than those of planets with main-sequence host stars, according to new research from the University of California, Irvine.

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