All stars, including our sun, have a limited lifespan. Composed of cosmic dust, helium, hydrogen and other ionized gases, stars turn into a red giant toward the end of their lives and then expand into a to planetary nebula they are shrinking.

This process begins with the depletion of hydrogen in the star. The star expands due to helium fission and begins to engulf the planets around it. But this process has never been observed by mankind until now, Let’s repeat, until now.

observed for the first time

• Illustration of the observed event.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are located about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. a star swallowing a giant planet noticed. The star devoured a planet the size of Jupiter.

After this event, the star was observed to reach a brightness 100 times higher than its normal brightness and lose its brightness completely after 10 days.

Star, now on to the next one 100 thousand years will pass for a red giant.

How did this observation come about?

This observation, a first in human history, was launched by NASA in 2009. NEOWISE (Near Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer) was made possible thanks to the spacecraft.

The planet also struggled for a while not to die…

Scientists examine data from NEOWISE, presence of dust around the star he saw. Scientists stated that the presence of dust indicates that the planet is drawing hot gases from the star’s surface and dispersing them into space. These gases, which were scattered in space, eventually turned into dust with traces.

Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury may one day meet the same fate:

When the hydrogen in our sun runs out, the same fate we see in the image above, It will also happen to the planets closest to the sun. These planets are also expected to be Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth. Although an exact time cannot be given, fortunately, according to estimates, we still have a long time ahead of us: 5 billion years.