Astronomers have witnessed a star gobbling up a planet, offering the first direct glimpse of a gnarly process called planetary engulfment that most likely awaits Earth in the deep future.Scientists serendipitously spotted a gas planet like Jupiter but possibly larger as it was swallowed up by an aging sun-like star about 12,000 light-years from Earth.
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