Are two Earth like worlds orbiting dying star remnants of gas giant five times the size of Jupiter?

Two Earth-sized planets circling perilously close to their dying star may have once been part of a single gas giant ripped to shreds by the force of gravity.

The pair are just under Earth's radius and orbit a subdwarf B star dubbed KIC 05807616, some 4,000 light-years away from our own solar system.

Israeli astrophysicists Ealeal Bear and Noam Soker believe they could have once been one planet ripped apart by the star's death throes into several Earth-size chunks.      More Read