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A team of 14 researchers from the United States and Chile has found evidence of a subgiant star, TOI-5882, consuming one of its planets. This star was already known due to its massive companion, a brown dwarf called TOI-5882 b, which may have contributed to the planet’s spiraling journey into the star.
A team of 14 researchers from the United States and Chile have found evidence of a subgiant star eating one of its planets. The star, called TOI-5882, was already known to astronomers because of its massive companion, a brown dwarf called TOI-5882 b. The companion may well have helped kick a planet onto a spiraling journey into the star.
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