Survivor planet around dead star gives us a peek at our solar system's future - CNET

An artist's rendering shows what it might have looked like as the star died and its Jupiter-like planet survived.

A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature details a Jupiter-like planet in a Jupiter-like orbit around a dead, white dwarf star.

Keck Observatory in Hawaii shows that some of the planets in our own system could continue to exist even after our star goes through its inevitable end-of-life tantrum in the far distant futureM

"Given that this system is an analog to our own solar system, it suggests that Jupiter and Saturn might survive the sun's red giant phase, when it runs out of nuclear fuel and self-destructs.".

Next up, the sun will settle into its white dwarf form as a dead star that is cooling and fading.