Astro News: Planet-eating Stars and an Accidental Brown Dwarf

September 3, 2021 NeRD

This week in astronomy news: A citizen scientist happens upon a weird, ancient brown dwarf and astronomers discover that Sun-like stars eat their own planets.

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