Cosmic Kick: Warm Orphans Born from Stellar Death
Like an exquisite clockwork mechanism, a multi-planet system responds sensitively to the slightest nudge. And when the star at the heart of this mechanism dies, shedding its envelope and turning into a white dwarf, even a modest kick at a speed of 0.75 km/s can trigger a cascade of events, flinging entire worlds into interstellar emptiness.