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Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling itself into it.
Now, new observations of the aftermath of same event from the James Webb Space Telescope have suggested a scenario previously only considered in the realms of science fiction: that a planet about the size of Jupiter self-destructed by heading straight into its parent star. In about 5 billion years, after exhausting the hydrogen in its core, the Sun will expand to 100 times its current radius, devouring nearby planets such as Mercury and Venus in the process. Scientists estimate that the process may have been triggered by the same phenomenon that generates tides on Earth—the gravitational pull of other nearby celestial bodies (which in Earth's case is the Moon and the Sun).
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