JWST Investigates Star-Planet Collision

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This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet.

Astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant that engulfed the planet.

The JWST's Near-Infrared Spectrometer instead found a disk of molecular gas encircling the star.

Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" ( Bloomsbury Sigma , 2020 ) and has written articles on astronomy, space, physics and astrobiology for a multitude of magazines and websites. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel' Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers.

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