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fried planet presented price science at
nasa

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astronomers have just cut a star in the
active devouring one of its planet

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be depressed forty-eight seven forty

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a red giant day observed using the nine
point two meter

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hobby and really telescope at the
mcdonald observatory in texas

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appears to have the fumes of escorts to
planet intent atmosphere

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this is consistent

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for the rocky world recently destroyed

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could the same thing happened to parents

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yes indeed says alex involves him a
member of the research team from penn

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state university

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a similar fit me await the inner planets
in our solar system

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when the sun becomes a red giant some
five billion years from now

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researchers who specialize in stellar
evolution have long known that the

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interplanetary in danger

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the trouble starts from the distant
future when the sun score runs out of

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hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion

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to keep the fires burning

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the sun will begin to fuse hydrogen
outside the core

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in a layer closer to the stellar surface

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this will turn the sun into a red giant

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at least two hundred times wider than it
is today

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Mercury Venus

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and possibly even mars could be engulfed

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the fate of earth is not a certainty
however

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some researchers believe that births or
that night spiral outward

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keeping the kind of had a safe distance
from the approaching inferno

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this could happen if solar winds carry
away a significant fraction of the sun's

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mass in the years leading up to the red
giant pays

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on the other hand

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the sunlight expands so quickly at our
planet has no chance to escape

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earth would get caught in the sun is
rapidly advancing atmosphere

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and spiral inward to oblivion

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observations of red giant be depressed
forty eight seven forty

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lend credence to the second possibility

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are detailed spectroscopic analysis and
be depressed forty eight seven forty

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reveals that the red giant contained an
abnormally high amount of the p m

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says monica item off who led the study
and nicolas cooker nicotine adversity

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and taryn poland

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because we live here is the easily
destroyed and stars finding lots of it

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in an all dread giant is unexpected

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the most likely source is a planet

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both sent explains

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it is probable that the lithium
production in be depressed forty eight

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seven forty

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was triggered by a mask the size of the
planet

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that spiraled into the star and heated
up while the star was digesting it

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the team found another piece of evidence
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bt close forty eight seven forty

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hasn't gastonia planet

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one point six times bigger than jupiter
which has not yet been devoured

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the big planet has a highly elliptical
or dead

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in fact it is the most elliptical orbit
ever found for a planet around an older

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star

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some catastrophic event

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like it starr having inner planet for
lunch

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one day he says our own solar system may
end up the same way

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and five billion years tough ride planet
could be here