Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time

Two years ago, Astronomers believe that they find a star eating one of their planets. Now after the James Webb Space Telescope, the new observations of the following research, previously offered a scenario in the worlds only in science fiction: a planet of a planet directly to parental star. Scientists in charge of observation believe that they have witnessed the first “planetary suicide” in history.

The only popular way of a star to consume its planets is a significant increase in the size of the star. This happens when The main sequence star,, like our sun, exhausted the fuse from hydrogen, and repeatedly swells and swells to be a red giant. Experts learn this process with interest, because the solar system itself can face it. For about 5 billion years, the sun, mercury and venus in his nucleus, the sun, mercury and venus will expand 100 times more by eating the current planets.

If a star absorbs a planet, observers on earth are short-lived, they discover the increase in brightness. It is known as a nova for a shiny moment.

In 2023, the Gemini South Observatory walked away from a Nova 12,000 light years. First he was suspected of being a red giant consuming one of the nearest planets. But two years later, James Webb was a more detailed analysis with the infrared tool of the space telescope, the stars are still in the main sequence stage, and the hydrogen star is expanded and red giant. This new evidence shows that the young star is caused by the influence of a jupiter size of Nova.

According to a recently published study Magazine of astrophysicsThis Nova is the most convincing direct detection of a planet consumed by the host star. The same researchers said that this Nova was a prove of a planet in another report, published Nature a few years ago. However, the team in the new study, which is the spectroscopy of this star, which is the light and other radiation analysis, after 820 days after the spread of light and peak, it has added more evidence that it is done.

This threw a new information and dust in the villain and gave a better idea of ​​the astronomer team that he could take place in that solar system. Walking, a jupiter, a jupiter, which is the same distance as the sun mercury, approached the star until the star was destroyed by the outer layers of the star.

The evidence is not shared to destroy the planets, which moves towards their stars, until it allows us to know. Scientists can trigger the same phenomenon (month and sun) by the same phenomenon (the work of the Earth and Sun) who create the gravity of other nearby celestial bodies. During the millions of years, the gravity, which was drawn from the star, produced orbital energy of some of the planets, and made it a steady road against the hostess. In the end, the planet said it would be very close to maintain the structural integrity.

All the scientific community does not convince this explanation. One of the main counter-assumptions says the star is only young, because it can be covered with a bright dust cloud, moisturizes brightness. Since age or star type is different from hypothesis, there may be another explanation for Nova.

New measurements with more powerful telescopes will measure the brightness of this star, and I hope it will present more evidence to what happened. In the future, it is possible to find more “suicide” planets will be found in other places, and the scenario is more common than thinking.

This story originated first String in Spanish and has been translated from Spanish.