In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its ...

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, spiraling inward, crashed directly into a regular star, not a red giant.

Examination of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a surprising new twist in the narrative of a star believed to have engulfed a planet. According to the space agency, data ...

WASHINGTON - In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI instrument has captured the final moments of a planet’s existence, unexpectedly revealing that the object descended into its host star rather than being engulfed ...

An artist's concept shows a ring of hot gas left after a star consumed a planet, in this undated illustration. —Reuters/ File WASHINGTON: For the first time, astronomers saw a planet being ...

An artist's concept shows a ring of hot gas left after a star consumed a planet, in this undated illustration. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed such a ring and also found an expanding ...

Languages: English. NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet—and, in classic crime thriller style, there has been a plot twist.

And they suggested that the drama indicated that a sunlike star absorbed a planet less than 10 times the mass of Jupiter. That’s a very reasonable scenario—and one scientists already expect to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...