Illustration of a likely planet orbiting PSR J0337+1715, a tightly packed triple-star system consisting of a pulsar and two white dwarfs.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/903/069/521/649/149/original/cfc48605633391bc.webp
This may be the strangest planet yet discovered. It seems to be a Pluto-size world circling the remains of three dead stars: two white dwarfs & a pulsar, as massive as the Sun but no bigger than Brooklyn.
If confirmed, it would also be the smallest exoplanet known.
https://astrobiology.com/2025/01/have-we-discovered-the-smallest-extra-solar-planet.html #space #science #astronomy #nature
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