{"id":211315,"date":"2025-04-13T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/first-ever-recorded-planetary-engulfment-event-captured-by-webb"},"modified":"2025-04-13T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:10:14","slug":"first-ever-recorded-planetary-engulfment-event-captured-by-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/first-ever-recorded-planetary-engulfment-event-captured-by-webb","title":{"rendered":"First-ever recorded planetary engulfment event captured by Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-recorded-planetary-engulfment-event-captured-by-webb2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic swelling and devouring event akin to a predator eating its prey. New observations, however, tell a very different story.<\/p>\n<p>Data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (<a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JWST<\/a>) reveals that the planet\u2019s orbit didn\u2019t terminate with a sudden engulfment. Instead, the planet spiraled slowly inward over time until it met its fiery end.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists behind this surprising update are from NSF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOIRLab<\/a>, and they worked with data collected by Webb\u2019s powerful mid-and near-infrared instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic swelling and devouring event akin to a predator eating its prey. New observations, however, tell a very different story. Data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals that the planet\u2019s orbit didn\u2019t terminate with a sudden engulfment. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211315","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}