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                                 2023 June 6

         IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/SmuG7odUe9c?rel=0

                              Star Eats Planet
   Illustrative Video Credit: [3]K. Miller & [4]R. Hurt ([5]Caltech, IPAC)

   Explanation: It’s [6]the end of a world as we know it. Specifically,
   the Sun-like star [7]ZTF SLRN-2020 was seen eating one of its own
   planets. Although many a planet eventually dies by spiraling into their
   central star, the [8]2020 event, involving a Jupiter-like planet, was
   the first time it was [9]seen directly. The star [10]ZTF SLRN-2020 lies
   about 12,000 [11]light years from the Sun toward the constellation of
   the Eagle ([12]Aquila). In the [13]featured animated illustration of
   the incident, the gas planet's atmosphere is first pictured being
   stripped away as it skims along the outskirts of the attracting star.
   Some of the planet's gas is absorbed into the star's atmosphere, while
   other gas is [14]expelled into space. By the video's end, the
   [15]planet is completely engulfed and falls into the star's center,
   causing the star's outer atmosphere to briefly expand, heat up, and
   brighten. One day, [16]about eight billion years from now, planet
   [17]Earth may spiral into our [18]Sun.

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   2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SmuG7odUe9c?rel=0
   3. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/keith-miller
   4. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/science/staff/robert-hurt
   5. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/
   6. https://youtu.be/8OyBtMPqpNY?t=48
   7. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/star-eats-planet-brightens-dramatically
   8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05842-x
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/caught-in-the-act-astronomers-detect-a-star-devouring-a-planet
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwicky_Transient_Facility
  11. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(constellation)
  13. https://caltech.app.box.com/v/ZTF-NEOWISE-STAR-PLANET
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210427.html
  15. https://live.staticflickr.com/5613/15634745431_af629b9374.jpg
  16. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.386..155S/abstract
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220206.html
  18. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/
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