Runaway planets
Some elderly stars may kick a planet out of house and home, University of Cambridge astronomers in England report in an upcoming Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Several exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars that are past their prime, or even dead, and it has been a mystery how the stars’ age affects the fate of the planets.
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