# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeoaaABNKdN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/72179449-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/eb5a908aeb.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-10-18T09:57:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

Could a planet survive the death of its star? 💥

@esawebb has found one: WD 1856 b is a giant planet that circles a dead star every 34 hours. It’s hotter than it should be, which tells us it probably stayed far out while its star died, then moved in much later.

Our Sun will die the same way in about five billion years. So this planet gives us our first look at what could happen to Jupiter.

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📹 @europeanspaceagency
🎞️ @NASA, ESA, @canadianspaceagency, R. Crawford (@space_telescopes), @creativecommons BY 4.0; ESASky; NASA; ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen); ESA/ATG medialab; Ryan J. MacDonald, Christopher E. O’Connor, Victoria A. Boehm, E. M. May, David K. Sing, Elijah Mullens, L. C. Mayorga, Trevor O. Foote, Simon Blouin, Logan A. Pearce, Nikole K. Lewis, Jeff Valenti, Natasha E. Batalha, Maura Lally, Joshua D. Lothringer, Mark S. Marley, Ishan Mishra & Susan E. Mullally

## Stats

- **Views:** 105,326
- **Likes:** 5,333
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 60

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Content Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Videographer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Video Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Senior Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Writer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Digital Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Screenwriter |

## Tags

space, europeanspaceagency

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