After collecting more observations with other telescopes, the researchers found that the data was consistent with a star devouring not another star, but a gas giant planet at least 30 times the mass of Earth. Daniel is the son of Korean immigrants living in Harlem. Natasha is an illegal immigrant from Jamaica living in Brooklyn who learns that her family will be deported. The outburst was similar to a phenomenon called a red nova, caused by a merger between two stars, but it wasn’t quite as bright and didn’t give off quite as much energy. The Sun Is Also a Star follows two teenagers in New York City, Natasha Kingsley and Daniel Bae. Over the course of around 10 days, it brightened by a factor of about 100. Kishalay De at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues used the Zwicky Transient Facility in California to spot a strange burst of light that was designated ZTF SLRN-2020, coming from a star around 13,000 light years away. Someday, our own sun will expand just like this star, enveloping the other inner planets, so this system is a sort of preview of Earth’s fate. An artist’s impression of a planet about to get munched by a starĪstronomers have caught a star in the act of devouring one of its planets for the first time.
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