Astronomers witness a star in its final days devouring a giant planet [TechSpot]

At first sight, the event formally known as ZTF SLRN-2020 looked like a collapsed star (white dwarf) stripping out hot gas from a neighbor star. Kishalay De, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the lead author of a new study published in Nature, was searching for this…Read Entire Article