The Oldest Planet Ever Discovered
We ve only found one planet in a globular cluster, where gravitational interactions should usually rip baby planets apart, but that s not all that excites astronomers about PSR 1620-26 b. Hosted by: Reid Reimers For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1038/332045a0 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...412L..33T https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1086326 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309502v1 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0709hstssu.html http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=1394 http://www.aspbooks.org/publications/398/119.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.0572.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09691 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.0052.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.11200.pdf arXiv:astro-ph/0205087 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M4_region_(26322094205).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_4_Hubble_WikiSky.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_globular_star_cluster_Messier_4.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_pulsar_planet_B1620-26c.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10861 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_dwarf.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_evolution_of_the_PSR_B1620-26_system.jpg https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/11541 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10659
