It's WD 1054-226, and the planet they found is only 2% the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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Catherine NeishGUEST
5:57
So it's really cozied up to this very cool white dwarf And they think that it could be in the habitable zone for two billion years before the star cools off even more.
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Catherine NeishGUEST
6:07
And that's more than enough time for life to develop.
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