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astro-ph.SR2025
Revealing a main-sequence star that consumed a planet with JWST
Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Colette Salyk +8
The subluminous red nova (SLRN) ZTF SLRN-2020 is the most compelling direct detection of a planet being consumed by its host star, a scenario known as a planetary engulfment event.…
astro-ph.SR2024
Protoplanetary discs around sun-like stars appear to live longer when the metallicity is low
Guido De Marchi, Giovanna Giardino, Katia Biazzo +17
Previous Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the star-forming cluster NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) had revealed a large population of pre-main sequence (PMS…