Star Devours Its Own Planet

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Like the Roman god Saturn who ate his own children, a star 600 light-years from Earth is slowly gobbling up one of its own planets, according to a study released on Wednesday in Nature, the British science journal. The planet, whose discovery was reported last year, is a "gas giant" with a mass about 40 percent greater than that of Jupiter, the biggest planet of our Solar System, and with a radius 79 percent bigger.

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