{"id":143768,"date":"2022-08-08T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-simulations-zoom-in-on-planets-swallowed-by-their-stars"},"modified":"2022-08-08T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:28:07","slug":"new-simulations-zoom-in-on-planets-swallowed-by-their-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-simulations-zoom-in-on-planets-swallowed-by-their-stars","title":{"rendered":"New simulations zoom in on planets swallowed by their stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-simulations-zoom-in-on-planets-swallowed-by-their-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve likely heard the story by now: As the Sun grows old, it will <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/magazine\/ask-astro\/2020\/09\/what-will-happen-to-the-planets-when-the-sun-becomes-a-red-giant\" target=\"_blank\">swell up into a red giant<\/a>. And as it expands, it will certainly swallow Mercury and Venus \u2014 and potentially Earth and even Mars \u2014 along the way.<\/p>\n<p>This process, called planetary engulfment, is likely common across the galaxy, as aging stars eat up their own planets (and even companion stars or brown dwarfs). But astronomers still don\u2019t understand exactly what happens to an unlucky planet that suddenly finds itself <em>inside<\/em> its parent star. Now, complex models called hydrodynamical simulations are shedding some light on the phenomenon, showing that factors such as a planet\u2019s mass and the age of its star when it\u2019s engulfed can have profound effects on what happens as the world is overtaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve likely heard the story by now: As the Sun grows old, it will swell up into a red giant. And as it expands, it will certainly swallow Mercury and Venus \u2014 and potentially Earth and even Mars \u2014 along the way. This process, called planetary engulfment, is likely common across the galaxy, as aging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}