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Astronomers have discovered the first example of a second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf, a world that appears to have formed from the remains of the dead star it now orbits.
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New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.
