Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time

Two years ago, Astronomers believe they have identified a star that plans a planet. Now, new observations of the next event of the James Web Space Telescope have only suggested a scene that is considered in the fields of science fiction: a planet about Jupiter’s size directly to its parent’s stars. Scientists in charge of the observation believe that they have witnessed the first “planet suicide” in history.

The only significant way to planet a star’s own planets is to increase significantly in the form of stars. When it happens to a The main sequence starsLike our sun, it goes out of the fuse outside the hydrogen and swells several times in its original size, Becoming a red monsterThe Experts are eagerly studying this process because the solar system itself can face it. In about 5 billion years, after tired of the hydrogen in its main part, the sun will expand its current radius to 100 times, consume nearest planets like mercury and Venus in the process.

When one of them absorbs a planet, observations on earth detects its illumination, though it is short -lived. Such a moment of brightness is known as Nova.

In 2023, the Gemi South Observatory observed a Nova 12,000 light-year-old. It was initially suspected that it was a red monster as a planet within its nearest planets. However, after two years, more detailed analysis with the infrared machine in the James Web Space Telescope revealed that the star was still at its main sequence, fusing the hydrogen – the star was not older and did not extend as a red monster. These new evidences indicate that the young star Nova was affected by a Jupiter -shaped body.

Published according to a recent study Astrophysical journalThis Nova is the most visible direct identification of an planet by its host star. The same researchers have already posted that this Nova was proof of involvement in another report on a planet, it was published Nature A few years ago. However, in the new survey, the party conducts the narrative narrator of the stars – after its top brightness, 120 days later, analyzing the visible light and other radiation emitted, adding further evidence of an involvement.

It provided new data to the stars and the dust debris and gave astronomers a better idea of ​​what happened in that solar system. They believe that a Jupiter-sized planet, orbiting the same distance as Mercury, slowly reached the stars until it was destroyed by the outer layers of the stars.

As far as proof lets us know, the planets are moving towards their stars, towards destruction, not ordinary. Scientists have assumed that the process can be triggered by the same event that produces the tide on the earth – the gravitational tension of the other heavenly bodies (which is the moon and the sun). For more than a million years, gravitational forces operated by the star lifted some of the planet’s orbit, pulling it from its stable path toward the host star. In the end, the planet orbiting its structural integrity to maintain its structural integrity.

Not all of the scientific community is confirmed by this explanation. One of the major counter-hypotis says that the star only looks young, because it can be surrounded by sterler dust dense clouds, its illumination is dim. If it can be seen that the type of age or type is different from which is different, then there may be another explanation for Nova.

New measurements with more powerful telescopes will better measure the brightness of these stars and will provide more evidence of what happened to optimism. It is also possible that more “suicide” planets will be found in other places in the future, which reveals that the scene is more common than thought.

This story was originally attended Wired In Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.