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Star Eating a Planet
(Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon )
Posted by Charles Cooper
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet being eaten by its parent star. For a minute, that sounds like a throwback to Greek mythology and the story of Cronus eating each of the children as they were born. But this one is for real.
In theory, scientists had previously concluded that planets will get absorbed by stars when they get too near each other. However, this marks the first time that the event has been recorded so clearly.
Researchers made their observation by using a new instrument called the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph that was installed on Hubble last year.
The planet in question, called WASP-12b, is found about 600 light-years away in the winter constellation Auriga. This sun-like star is the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy at around 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Apparently, it is so close to its parent star that it can make the orbit around the star in slightly more than 24 hours.
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