Kronos Planets (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Kronos Planets

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Sun-like star Kronos shows signs of having ingested 15 Earth masses worth of rocky planets, prompting Princeton astronomers to nickname it for the Titan who ate his young. This artist's rendering of the diverse rocky planets in our galaxy hints at what Kronos's planets might have looked like before the star enveloped them.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)

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