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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 6h

Ageing stars are surprisingly efficient at destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, suggests a new study by Dr Edward Bryant @embryantastro.bsky.social and Dr Vincent Van Eylen @uclmaps.bsky.social looking at nearly half a million post-main sequence stars using NASA's TESS satellite

Ageing stars may be destroying their closest planets

Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick.

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UCL-Birkbeck Planetary Science @ucl-bbk-cps.bsky.social · 1d

A study led by CPS colleagues Dr Ed Bryant (now @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) and Associate Professor in Exoplanets, Dr Vincent Van Eylen at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory @uclmaps.bsky.social ☀️🪐

Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 1d

Well, a @ucl.ac.uk and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests it's not good news for Jupiter and Saturn. 🪐

Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Ageing stars may be destroying their closest planets

Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, new research shows – offering a glimpse into the possible fate of the likes of Jupiter a...

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embryantastro.bsky.social @embryantastro.bsky.social · 1d

The paper is open access for all to read and can be found here - doi.org/10.1093/mnra...

Determining the impact of post-main-sequence stellar evolution on the transiting giant planet population

ABSTRACT. The post-main-sequence evolution of stars is expected to impact the exoplanets residing on close-in orbits around them. Using photometric data fr

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embryantastro.bsky.social @embryantastro.bsky.social · 1d

The ageing of host stars can be catastrophic for planets!

Our new research into this planet population shows that the evolution of stars causes giant planets to spiral into their host stars and be destroyed.

Check out the press release below and paper (published in MNRAS today!) for more

Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New research alert🚨

Ever wondered what might happen to Earth and the other planets in our solar system when the Sun becomes a red giant in 5 billion years? ☀️🔴

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