The First 3 Exoplanets Ever Discovered Shouldn't Exist

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Three planets orbiting a dead star shouldn't exist. Yet they do. The first exoplanets ever discovered weren't peaceful Earth-like worlds. They were orbiting the corpse of a dead star.

For more than thirty years, astronomers have debated how these strange exoplanets came to exist. Did these rocky worlds somehow survive a supernova? Did they form around a pulsar after the explosion? Or were they captured from another star entirely?

Travel over 2,300 light-years from Earth to explore the mysterious Lich planetary system, home to Poltergeist, Phobetor and Draugr, three bizarre worlds orbiting a rapidly spinning pulsar, one of the most extreme objects in the universe.

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