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Scientists May Have Observed, For The First Time, Using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray, A Star Consuming Planets. The Discovery, Which Could Help Understand Exoplanets, Was Made In Taurus-Auriga Constellation (450 LY), Where Star RW Aur A Was Observed To Dim Occasionally Due To Iron Rich Veil, From Collision Of Two Planets, Falling Into The Star.

X-ray data may be first evidence of a star devouring a planet

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-x-ray-evidence-star-devouring-planet.html

For nearly a century, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of young stars residing in the Taurus-Auriga constellation some 450 light years from Earth. One star in particular has drawn astronomers’ attention. Every few decades, the star’s light has faded briefly before brightening again.