Planet 8 Ursa Major b continues to orbit strangely near its star, even though it should have disappeared when the star became a red giant.
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January 26, 2023
Exoplanet 8 Ursa Major b should have been destroyed when its host swelled into a red giant NASA
Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a star in an orbit that would have been consumed when the star expanded into a red giant. This is the same fate that may one day befall the earth.
Called 8 Ursae Minoris b, the planet is a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter, more than 400 light-years from Earth. It orbits the star at about half the distance between the Earth and…
