Planetary science: The ultimate fate of planets
Abstract
A planetary system has been found in a startlingly tight orbit around an evolved star. The finding challenges the idea that close-in planets are destroyed as their host star evolves. See Letter p.496
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1038/480460a
- Bibcode:
- 2011Natur.480..460K