CANADA: Ponce de León never discovered the Fountain of Youth, but scientists may have discovered the key to eternal exoplanetary youth.
Astronomers monitoring a white star named PG 0010+280 discovered an overabundance of infrared radiation; at first, the scientists assumed the excess was a product of the nebula surround PG 0010+280, but it soon became clear that the source was a nearby exoplanet (planets that orbit a star other than our own), giving credence to exoplanet rejuvenation, which up until now has only been hypothetical.
According to observations through NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, it seems that rejuvenation happens when exoplanets come into contact with excess material shed from dying red stars, as those stars eventually balloon, sending stellar plasma out into the ether. When exoplanets come into contact with this cosmic material, they swell in size and significantly rise in temperature, thus sending out infrared light from the atmosphere.
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