A star for the first time in history one of the critical moments in the extinction phase had been observed. A star that turned into a red giant 12,000 light-years away swallowed its own planet in the process.

Those moments, the data of which were recorded, showed the fate of our sun and Earth 5 billion years later. Today, before there was a single planet, scientists pointing to what the solar system looks like He made a new discovery.

The discovery in 2017 was repeated:

In 2017, scientists noticed an interesting shadow in a round structure made of gas and dust in data obtained thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope. This shadow was located around the red giant stage star TW Hydrae, one of the last stages of star death.

The most accepted explanation for this shadow was that it belonged to an unseen planet. The planet’s gravity pulls dust and gas into its orbit, forming its own disk. the disk around the star shadowed him.

A second shadow was recently spotted on the same system:

Examining Hubble’s data for June 6, 2021, scientists found that appeared around the same star just a few years apart. to a second shadow Ran into. Scientists stated that this shadow also belongs to the disk of another invisible planet.

What do you mean by “invisible” planet?

Yes, there is no planet in the middle. The structures whose shadows have been discovered are just a disk of dust and gas orbiting a center of gravity. Here’s the disc we can’t see today, but planets that we will see in a few hundred thousand years will make.

The text published by the European Space Agency stated that the distance of both planets from the star is comparable to the distance between Jupiter and the sun. Also the rotation of shadow structures around the star. completed in 15 years calculated.