Astronomers recently got a glimpse at Earth's fiery fate while watching a distant star devour a nearby planet.
, sometime far in the future. However, a newly released study could give us a glimpse at Earth’s fate, as astronomers recently watched a star eat a planet.
“We are seeing the future of the Earth,” Kishalay De, a postdoc at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,. De was one researcher that glimpsed Earth’s future fate while watching a star roughly 12,000 light-years away.
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