STAR SEEN SWALLOWING ITS PLANET WHOLE.

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      In a few billion years, our aging Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core and begin to swell, eventually engulfing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth. This was not typical of a nova, and gave his team clues to unravel the mystery: Instead of material from a nearby star, this star had swallowed a Jupiter-sized planet. Perhaps, in 5 billion years, alien astronomers will see a smaller, Earth-sized blip as our planet plunges into the Sun's dying embrace. [Extracted from the article]
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