"If confirmed, these would be the first directly imaged planets that are similar in both age and separation to the giant planets in our own solar system, and they would demonstrate that widely separated giant planets like Jupiter survive stellar evolution," the international team of astronomers writes.
The findings suggest that gas giants could survive their hot stars collapsing and transforming into white dwarfs, but further confirmation is needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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