While there had been previous signs of other stars nibbling at planets and their digestive aftermath, this was the first time the swallow itself was observed, according to the study appearing in the journal Nature. As the planet went down the stellar hatch, there was a swift hot outburst of light, followed by a long-lasting stream of dust shining brightly in cold infrared energy, the researchers said. The first sharp image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunningly clear photo of a twinkling star roughly more than 2,000 light-years away from Earth. Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled on Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured. This galactic feast happened between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago near the Aquila constellation when the star was around 10 billion years old. "If it's any consolation, this will happen in about 5 billion years," said co-author Morgan MacLeod of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescopes main mirror is fully aligned and performing even better than it had been designed to do, NASA officials revealed in a news conference held virtually on Wednesday. It's a gloomy preview of what will happen to Earth when our sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planets. The sun-like star had been puffing up with old age for eons and finally got so big that it engulfed the close-orbiting planet. Some might be tempted to see the proposal to rename JWST as an attempt to litigate decades-old history. For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet - not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.Īstronomers reported their observations of what appeared to be a gas giant around the size of Jupiter or bigger being eaten by its star. But NASA is not launching a telescope named after its entire administration.
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