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An artist’s impression of a star engulfing a planet. The blue line traces the path of the planet as it spirals toward the star and ultimately collides with it.
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a pla…

It is thought the Sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its history. Now a new study has gone a step further by suggesting that such an event may have left behind detectable clues inside our star which could...
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An artist’s impression of a star engulfing a planet. The blue line traces the path of the planet as it spirals toward the star and ultimately collides with it.
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet
This figure illustrates the different distributions of dust (blue), gas (green) and ions (red) in 3I/Atlas.
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Secrets of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas revealed
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