{"id":241734,"date":"2023-05-10T20:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241734"},"modified":"2023-05-10T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T14:45:33","slug":"indian-scientist-led-team-witnesses-star-engulfing-jupiter-sized-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-scientist-led-team-witnesses-star-engulfing-jupiter-sized-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian scientist-led team witnesses star engulfing Jupiter-sized planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIndian scientist-led team witnesses star engulfing Jupiter-sized planet\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 10th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

S<\/span>cientists have witnessed a bloated star in our own galaxy swallowing a planet. This star has been identified as \u201cZTF SLRN-2020\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is ZTF SLRN-2020?<\/b><\/h2>\n

ZTF SLRN-2020 is a Sun-like star that swallowed a Jupiter-sized planet, causing the star to expel some material into space in an energetic belch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The star is similar to our sun in size and composition and is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.<\/span><\/p>\n

After running out of fuel in its core, the star began to grow in size, shrinking the gap with its neighbouring planet, eventually consuming it entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the significance of these findings?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Life cycles of stars have been well studied and understood. Older stars, eventually, ingest the nearby planets (like Mercury and Venus with respect to our Sun), too are scientifically known.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Earth could face a similar fate five billion years from today. At the end of its life, the Sun will swell up to a size that will certainly be bigger than the present-day orbit of Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So nominally, the Earth would get engulfed when the Sun runs out of fuel in about 5 billion years.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, what had never been observed until now was the actual process of a dying star consuming a planet. Now, this has finally happened.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian scientist-led team witnesses star engulfing Jupiter-sized planet\u201d published in Indian Express on 10th May 2023 What is the News? Scientists have witnessed a bloated star in our own galaxy swallowing a planet. This star has been identified as \u201cZTF SLRN-2020\u201d. What is ZTF SLRN-2020? ZTF SLRN-2020… Continue reading Indian scientist-led team witnesses star engulfing Jupiter-sized planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-241734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703283318},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}