{"id":163315,"date":"2023-05-04T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/astronomers-witness-star-devouring-a-planet-possible-preview-of-the-ultimate-fate-of-earth"},"modified":"2023-05-04T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:22:19","slug":"astronomers-witness-star-devouring-a-planet-possible-preview-of-the-ultimate-fate-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/astronomers-witness-star-devouring-a-planet-possible-preview-of-the-ultimate-fate-of-earth","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers witness star devouring a planet: Possible preview of the ultimate fate of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFk7bvbSVOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the power of the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) on Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF\u2019s NOIRLab, astronomers have observed the first direct evidence of a dying star expanding to engulf one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/planets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">planets<\/a>. Evidence for this event was found in a telltale \u201clong and low-energy\u201d outburst from a star in the Milky Way about 13,000 light-years from Earth. This event, the devouring of a planet by an engorged star, likely presages the ultimate fate of Mercury, Venus, and Earth when our sun begins its death throes in about five billion years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese observations provide a new perspective on finding and studying the billions of stars in our Milky Way that have already consumed their planets,\u201d says Ryan Lau, NOIRLab astronomer and co-author on this study, which is published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the power of the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI) on Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF\u2019s NOIRLab, astronomers have observed the first direct evidence of a dying star expanding to engulf one of its planets. Evidence for this event was found in a telltale \u201clong and low-energy\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163315","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}