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Scientists have spotted indirect signs of such planetary engulfments across the galaxy, and a team recently reported the first direct detection of a planet flaming out, as a star consumed it.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Suvi Gezari, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, says the observations extend the phenomenon of red novae to much lower luminosities and into the regime of planetary engulfments.
From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023
To play out some of those scenarios, Mr. Yarza and his colleagues modeled engulfments of planets larger than Jupiter in their study, which has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022
Systems with two stars, known as binaries, are ideal environments to search for evidence of sudden engulfments.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022
The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
