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Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet – an astrophysicist on the team explains the first-of-its-kind discovery

  • Written by Morgan MacLeod, Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics, Harvard University
Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet – an astrophysicist on the team explains the first-of-its-kind discoveryNew research shows that the destructive merging of a star and a planet expels huge amounts of gas, as shown in this artist's impression.K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC), CC BY-ND

For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named ZTF SLRN-2020, is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in...

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