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Star Swallows Planet

May 3, 2023

 

A planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, was swallowed by its host star. We got to watch the energetic "burp" that followed. This discovery is the culmination of a collaborative effort between many observational and theoretical facilities. The observations, led by Kishalay De (MIT), were interpreted by Morgan MacLeod (CfA), shaping our understanding of this event as the swallowing of a planet.  

Watch the video here!

https://youtu.be/uu-jQWf0Z4k

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Sophia Sanchez-Maes

Sophia Sanchez-Maes

Graduate Student
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellow
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
Research Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street, MS-10
Cambridge, MA 02138

ITC grad student Marion Dierickx is the lead author on a research paper, with findings published in The Astrophysical Journal!

January 12, 2017

ITC grad student Marion Dierickx is the lead author on a research paper, with findings published in The Astrophysical Journal!

 

 

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Dimitar Sasselov

Dimitar Sasselov

Phillips Professor of Astronomy
Director, Origins of Life Initiative
Senior Advisor in the Sciences for Advanced Study

Research Interests:  Professor Sasselov studies, among other things, extrasolar planets, and he's a co-investigator on NASA's Kepler mission, which is monitoring 100,000 stars in a three-year hunt for exoplanets -- including Jupiter-sized giants. Sasselov watches for exoplanets by looking for transits, the act of a planet passing across the face of its star, dimming its light and changing its chemical signature. This simple, elegant way of searching has led to a bounty of newly discovered planets. https://sasselov.cfa.harvard.edu/... Read more about Dimitar Sasselov

Perkin Lab, P-336
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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