Scientists Get Gruesome Look At How Sunlike Stars Eat Planets Space When stars the size of the sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, they balloon into red giants that may be more than ten times larger than the original starAs these red giants engulf the planets As scientists study thousands of planets around the galaxy, they are learning more about worlds that get swallowed up by their stars By Becky Ferreira The sun has nourished life on Earth, but it

Stars Can Eat Their Planets How And Why It Happens Worldatlas A surprising number of stars eat their own planets, study shows Here's how it happens Researchers studied twin stars that should have the same composition Reaching an answer is, however, confounded by a rather dramatic problem: certain stars eat their own planets, which makes learning what counts as “normal” for planetary systems a little Can stars eat planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by ASTRO 3D researchers investigated how some pairs of twin stars An international team of researchers found in a new study that at least one in 12 stars show evidence of planetary ingestion

Stars Can Eat Their Planets How And Why It Happens Worldatlas Can stars eat planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by ASTRO 3D researchers investigated how some pairs of twin stars An international team of researchers found in a new study that at least one in 12 stars show evidence of planetary ingestion You just have to think about the characteristics of the planets and stars involved, the researcher says, such as their masses, radii, and the orbital separation between the planet and its star The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets The paper also suggests a strange conclusion that stars born more recently are less likely to be capable of harboring life on their planets Read more Distant planet formed 150 million years ago Southwest Research Institute (2025, June 9) Planets may start forming before their stars are even done ScienceDaily Retrieved June 11, 2025 from wwwsciencedailycom / releases / 2025 / 06