Star is caught devouring planet

[Rocky_Shorz]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62407000/jpg/_62407456_62407455.jpg


Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall Earth in billions of years.

The team uncovered the signature of a planet that had been "eaten" by looking at the chemistry of the host star.

They also think a surviving planet around this star may have been kicked into its unusual orbit by the destruction of a neighbouring world.

Details of the work have been published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The US-Polish-Spanish team made the discovery when they were studying the star BD+48 740 - which is one of a stellar class known as red giants. Their observations were made with the Hobby Eberly telescope, based at the McDonald Observatory in Texas.

Rising temperatures near the cores of red giants cause these elderly stars to expand in size, a process which will cause any nearby planets to be destroyed.

"A similar fate may await the inner planets in our solar system, when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands all the way out to Earth's orbit some five billion years from now," said co-author Prof Alexander Wolszczan from Pennsylvania State University in the US... link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19332091)

[Sidney]

For some reason my BS meter is going off on this one, not sure why.

[WhiteFeather]

The Stars get hungry too you know! And they are all probably sick of eating those Monsanto GMO Stars. Lately more and more stars are chomping on Fresh Organic Fruits and Vegetable Planetary structures these days.

[modwiz]

Did they say this will happen to Earth in billions of years? I better get a survival pack, buy gold and silver and get one of those drinking straws that let you drink from a puddle. I hope there is enough time!!!!!!!!:p:rolleyes:

Maybe I'll take a nap instead. Much better idea.:sleep:

Devouring?? Scientists are such drama queens to make sure it gets on the nightly regurgitant.

[WhiteFeather]

Did they say this will happen to Earth in billions of years? I better get a survival pack, buy gold and silver and get one of those drinking straws that let you drink from a puddle. I hope there is enough time!!!!!!!!:p:rolleyes:

Maybe I'll take a nap instead. Much better idea.:sleep:

Devouring. Scientists are such drama queens to make sure it gets on the nightly regurgitant.

You sir have a way with words. ROTF And LMFAO

[DeDukshyn]

For some reason my BS meter is going off on this one, not sure why.

lol .. what difference does it make? For me it's not even something I'd look at my BS meter for. ;) ;)

[Lifebringer]

I heard about this three decades ago. Star expansion that eventually overtakes the planets of it's system before it expands to it's most vital point for inversion before exploding. They say it happens with all stars eventually, but tptw, will never tell you if that's happening, also they wouldn't be going to Mars if it was happening, Earth is farther away.

[modwiz]

Another riff on the headline. Star "caught" devouring planet.

The star must have thought no one was looking when it decided to sneak to the refrigerator and 'snack' on a planet. Oops, it got 'caught'. Yeah, doing what is natural in the life cycles of the cosmos.

Rocky, I hope this is evidence of your sideways sense of humor. :p

[Rocky_Shorz]

http://stereo.ssl.berkeley.edu/currentstereoloc.gif


Another riff on the headline. Star "caught" devouring planet.

The star must have thought no one was looking when it decided to sneak to the refrigerator and 'snack' on a planet. Oops, it got 'caught'. Yeah, doing what is natural in the life cycles of the cosmos.

Rocky, I hope this is evidence of your sideways sense of humor. :p


there are many here who still believe it is coming in the next few months...


you caught the Billions of years and chuckled just like me... GMTA ;)

[DeDukshyn]

I heard about this three decades ago. Star expansion that eventually overtakes the planets of it's system before it expands to it's most vital point for inversion before exploding. They say it happens with all stars eventually, but tptw, will never tell you if that's happening, also they wouldn't be going to Mars if it was happening, Earth is farther away.

Which solar system do you live in? ;) ;) ;)

[modwiz]

http://stereo.ssl.berkeley.edu/currentstereoloc.gif


Another riff on the headline. Star "caught" devouring planet.

The star must have thought no one was looking when it decided to sneak to the refrigerator and 'snack' on a planet. Oops, it got 'caught'. Yeah, doing what is natural in the life cycles of the cosmos.

Rocky, I hope this is evidence of your sideways sense of humor. :p


there are many here who still believe it is coming in the next few months...


you caught the Billions of years and chuckled just like me... GMTA ;)

I think whitefeather once posted the Little Rascals cannibal who said, "Yum, yum, eat em up". This subject needs that kind of humor. A white cannibal would work too. Put a bone through anyone's nose and you have Instant Cannibal. Just add water, bone not included.

[eni-al]

Devouring?? Scientists are such drama queens to make sure it gets on the nightly regurgitant.

That's the journalists headlines.


No ned for concern over it, no one is fear mongering or anything. Anyway, its pretty interesting, might have been no life on the planet, or if there was, there's not now, born from the stars and returned back them.

[ghostrider]

Those pesky plantets I'll show them who is boss. resistence is futile.