A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion
Illustration of the WD 1856 system, which includes the binary stars G 229-20 A and B, and the possible path a massive object may have taken through the system. Such an encounter could explain how WD 1856 b shifted closer to the white dwarf.
Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2023f |
| Release date: | Sept. 15, 2020, 6:44 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2023 |
| Duration: | 19 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
| Name: | Gemini North |
| Category: | Exoplanets |
