🌌 The Planet That Refuses To Die

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]There's a planet so close to its star, it should have been torn apart billions of years ago. But somehow it's still there. It orbits a neutron star closer than our moon is to Earth. A full year there lasts just 2 hours. Tidal forces at that distance should rip any normal world to shreds. We're talking gravity strong enough to flatten mountains into dust, but this one survived. Scientists think it's the dense metallic core of a former gas giant stripped naked by the explosion that created the star. It's a ghost world, the corpse of a planet dancing on the grave of a dead sun. What do you think it looks like up close?

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