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Red Giant Destroying Planet - V2
Astronomers at NOIRLab (Tucson, Arizona, USA) have detected what they believe is the
first sighting of the destruction of a gas giant planet caused by the expansion of
its ageing red giant star. All sun-like stars expand
as their nuclear fuel runs ou...
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... giant, NOIRLab, planet, press release, red
giant, stellar evolution ...
Red Giant from Planet
This once normal star, having exhausted its internal supply of hydrogen, has
expanded, growing into a gargantuan caricature of its former self called a red giant. It is dozens or hundreds of times its original
size. Any nearby planets will be engulfe...
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... expansion, landscape, melted, melting, red
giant, star, stellar evolution, volc ...
Surface Mass Ejection
A surface mass ejection (SME), depicted in this illustration, is a relatively
recently discovered phenomenon in stellar astrophysics. They are similar to coronal
mass ejections but on a far larger scale. During an SME, a star can release hundreds
of ...
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Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, destruction, engulfed, gas giant, red giant, SME,...
Sun Compared to Largest Star - Labelled
Diagram comparing the Sun with Stephenson 2-18. The latter is the current contender
for the largest known star, a red hypergiant some 2150 times the diameter of the Sun.
The Sun can fit into it 10 billion times!...
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... , diagram, diameter, giant, hypergiant, red
giant, scale, schematic, size, stars ...