Planet hunters may be missing a trick. White dwarfs could be good targets for exoplanet searches. They are as common as Sun-like stars, the most common ones have a surface temperature of 5000 K and this should produce a habitable zone at distances of 0.01 AU for periods in excess of 3 ga. That’s long enough for something interesting to have emerged on these bodies.

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