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Patch Notes - Deep Dive: The Solar System Respawned

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Astronomers revisiting twenty-five-year-old Hubble data have found evidence for something that sounds almost impossible: a giant planet that may have formed only after its star died.

The clues were hidden in about a hundred unidentified spectral lines, including an extraordinary amount of niobium produced during the star’s final stages.

Now the suspected world appears to be evaporating back…