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No planets seen for Sirius B, the nearest white dwarf to Earth
No planets seen for Sirius B, the nearest white dwarf to Earth,Well, this is a bummer: It looks like Sirius B doesn’t have any extant jovian gas giant planets. Sirius B is the closest white dwarf to Earth, the leftover innards of a star like the Sun after it goes all red giant, blows off its outer layers, and reveals its dense core to space. And I do mean dense; Sirius B has the mass of the Sun packed into a ball about the same size as Earth.

No planets seen for Sirius B, the nearest white dwarf to Earth

Well, this is a bummer: It looks like Sirius B doesn’t have any extant jovian gas giant planets. Sirius B is the closest white dwarf to Earth, the leftover innards of a star like the Sun after it goes all red giant, blows off its outer layers, and reveals its dense core to space. And I do mean dense; Sirius B has the mass of the Sun packed into a ball about the same size as Earth.