Witness: Scientists spotted an enlarged star at the moment it swallowed up a nearby planet
It all began in May 2020 when Kechalai D observed with a special camera from the Caltech Observatory a star that began to shine 100 times more than usual for about ten days, and it was located in the galaxy, about 12 thousand light years from Earth.
A star located near the constellation of the Vulture witnessed a natural, inconsistent inflation due to its being old, which made it swallow the planet that was very close to it, according to what astronomers observed after observing for the first time a phenomenon of this kind.
They had previously monitored indicators of such an event and felt its consequences. Keshalay DN, a researcher at the Kavli Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lead author of the study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature, said that what they lacked was "to catch the star at this very moment, when a planet experiences a similar fate."
By the way, this is what awaits the Earth, but after about five billion years, when the sun approaches the end of its existence as a yellow dwarf and swells up to become a red giant. At best, its size and temperature would turn the Earth into a big molten rock. At worst, it will disappear completely.
It all began in May 2020 when Kechalai D observed with a special camera from the Caltech Observatory a star that began to shine 100 times more than usual for about ten days, and it was located in the galaxy, about 12 thousand light years from Earth.
He expected to find what he was looking for, which is to observe a binary star system that includes two stars, one in orbit around the other. The larger star tears the envelope of the smaller one, and with each "bite" a light is emitted.
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