A team of researchers found the first direct case of a star engulfing a planet, publishing their findings on Wednesday.
A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the California Institute of Technology published their research in a paper published in Nature titled"An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet." In it, the team relayed their discovery of a sunlike star reaching its"red giant" phase, ballooning big enough to swallow an orbiting planet.
The finding is being hailed as giving valuable insight into how Earth could meet its eventual demise nearly 4 billion years from now. “For decades, we’ve been able to see the before and after,” lead author Kishalay De said in a statement. “Before, when the planets are still orbiting very close to their star, and after, when a planet has already been engulfed, and the star is giant. What we were missing was catching the star in the act, where you have a planet undergoing this fate in real-time. That’s what makes this discovery really exciting.
The location of the phenomenon is within our own Milky Way galaxy but about 12,000 light-years away. The planet consumed by the star, which spiraled close to the star for an extended period of time, was believed to be a gaseous planet about the size of Jupiter.
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