June 26, 2025
Galactic mergers are not like a demolition derby, with stars and planets crashing into each other, but rather a complicated blending on an immense scale
The distant galaxy, called J0107a, was observed as it appeared 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was about a fifth of its current age
Astronomers uncover a dramatic cosmic death scene, revealing how a giant planet met its end by spiralling into its host star
The two stars, gravitationally bound to each other in a binary system, are located in our Milky Way galaxy about 160 light-years from Earth
