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Scientists observe star swallowing a planet for the first time

For the first time, scientists have observed the moment a dying star, the size of the Sun, consumed a gas giant, the size of Jupiter. The planetary demise was observed by a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. It is a gloomy preview of what will happen to our Earth when the Sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planet.