﻿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2023 June 6 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/SmuG7odUe9c?rel=0 Star Eats Planet Illustrative Video Credit: [3]K. Miller & [4]R. Hurt ([5]Caltech, IPAC) Explanation: It’s [6]the end of a world as we know it. Specifically, the Sun-like star [7]ZTF SLRN-2020 was seen eating one of its own planets. Although many a planet eventually dies by spiraling into their central star, the [8]2020 event, involving a Jupiter-like planet, was the first time it was [9]seen directly. The star [10]ZTF SLRN-2020 lies about 12,000 [11]light years from the Sun toward the constellation of the Eagle ([12]Aquila). In the [13]featured animated illustration of the incident, the gas planet's atmosphere is first pictured being stripped away as it skims along the outskirts of the attracting star. Some of the planet's gas is absorbed into the star's atmosphere, while other gas is [14]expelled into space. By the video's end, the [15]planet is completely engulfed and falls into the star's center, causing the star's outer atmosphere to briefly expand, heat up, and brighten. One day, [16]about eight billion years from now, planet [17]Earth may spiral into our [18]Sun. Tomorrow's picture: ring galaxy ring __________________________________________________________________ [19]< | [20]Archive | [21]Submissions | [22]Index | [23]Search | [24]Calendar | [25]RSS | [26]Education | [27]About APOD | [28]Discuss | [29]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [30]Robert Nemiroff ([31]MTU) & [32]Jerry Bonnell ([33]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [34]Specific rights apply. [35]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [36]ASD at [37]NASA / [38]GSFC, [39]NASA Science Activation & [40]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SmuG7odUe9c?rel=0 3. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/keith-miller 4. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/science/staff/robert-hurt 5. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/ 6. https://youtu.be/8OyBtMPqpNY?t=48 7. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/star-eats-planet-brightens-dramatically 8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05842-x 9. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/caught-in-the-act-astronomers-detect-a-star-devouring-a-planet 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwicky_Transient_Facility 11. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/light-year/en/ 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(constellation) 13. https://caltech.app.box.com/v/ZTF-NEOWISE-STAR-PLANET 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210427.html 15. https://live.staticflickr.com/5613/15634745431_af629b9374.jpg 16. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.386..155S/abstract 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220206.html 18. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/ 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230605.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 28. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=230606 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230607.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 32. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 33. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 35. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 39. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 40. http://www.mtu.edu/