Zobayer Hossain Shanto

NASA Webb’s Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise

The James Webb Space Telescope was never meant to perform autopsies. However, no one anticipated a star to consume its own planet in this manner. Dr. Lena Kaur stared at the most recent JWST spectral data. A red giant star had recently done the unthinkable, devouring a rocky planet the size of Earth, about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. It had been caught in the act by Webb's infrared eye, which had recorded heat signatures, chemical trails, and atmospheric screams. They had named the system Zeta-G Scorpii, but internally, the team just called it “The Furnace.”