Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first-ever direct observation of a star swallowing a planet.  Clearly, the stellar host was the culprit. Acts of "planetary engulfment" only occur when a star enters its red giant stage — as our Sun is fated to go — a period near the end of its stellar evolution in which it slowly cools and puffs outward, dooming any world it eventually touches. But the astronomer's new study published in The Astrophysical Journal suggests otherwise. They discovered signs that it was actually the ill-fated planet that charged headlong into its own […]

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