First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star (IMAGE)

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First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star

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The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope by an international team of astronomers. 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.

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Marty Harris/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin

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