Scientists just caught a star eating an entire planet: I t’s a gloomy preview of what will happen to Earth when our sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planets
. The sun-like star had been puffing up with old age for eons and finally got so big that it engulfed the close-orbiting planet.
This galactic feast happened between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago near the Aquila constellation when the star was around 10 billion years old. As the planet went down the stellar hatch, there was a swift hot outburst of light, followed by a long-lasting stream of dust shining brightly in cold infrared energy, the researchers said.
The findings are “very plausible,” said Carole Haswell, an astrophysicist at Britain’s Open University, who had no role in the research. Haswell led a team in 2010 that used the Hubble Space Telescope to identify the star WASP-12 in the process of eating its planet.
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