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Astronomers find possible ‘phoenix planet’ born of a dead star

A faint brightness signal repeating every 4.4 days in NASA’s TESS data is consistent with a Jupiter-sized gas giant, but the planet remains a candidate.

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Artist’s concept of an orange, banded gas giant lit like a crescent by a distant star; the picture shows a different white dwarf planet, WD 1856 b