This Planet Survived the Death of its Star

When stars die, they tend to take everything around them with them. But new evidence appears to show a planet orbiting a white dwarf, and we’re not sure how it survived! Plus, experiments designed to detect dark matter might be capable of detecting dark energy, too! Hosted By: Reid Reimers Bundle your Patreon support and your Space Pin of the Month purchase with our new Patreon tier! Patreon.com/SciShowSpace SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet & Jason A Saslow! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20242 http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_4/notes15.html https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/p/Planetary+Nebulae https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.063023 https://newatlas.com/physics/dark-energy-dark-matter-detector-xenon1t/ https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/d/Dark+Matter https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/D/Dark+Energy https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/five-sigmawhats-that/ Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/astronomical-observatory-under-the-night-sky-stars-hyperlapse-rz4tkybk0qjoy5z1eb https://youtu.be/7uN1AjMui5k?t=45 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20242 https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-watches-cosmic-light-bend https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-new-cooperative-agreement-to-w-m-keck-observatory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravitational_lens-full.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20344 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-missions-spy-first-possible-survivor-planet-hugging-white-dwarf-star https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10297 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13852 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DarkMatterPie.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_827.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10128 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_matter.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large_Underground_Xenon_detector_inside_watertank.jpg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/blue-particles-space-brbmvvm4ukmhoko1e https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/a-new-twist-in-the-dark-matter-tale.html https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-releases-images-of-mid-level-solar-flare/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DEAP3600.jpg