The star swallowed its planet - literally.

A lone giant the size of Jupiter could not escape from the gravitational trap and gradually spiraled into the red-hot bowels of its luminary. A colossal release of gas and dust into space, which astronomers have recorded under the name ZTF SLRN-2020.

It looks like a fantasy, but in the distant future — in five billion years — this could happen to our Solar system. When the Sun starts to die, it will swell up too, and anything that gets too close risks becoming a cosmic breakfast.

To make this shot, the astrophotographer needed not just a camera and a tripod, but 7 YEARS of STUBBORNNESS and a little luck.

He wasn't hunting for the moon, but for the perfect moment where everything would come together: phase, angle, weather, horizon. And every time — clouds, disruption, bummer.

But on December 15, at 18:57 Italian time, all the factors converged

Astronomers have discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, at a distance of 13.4 billion light-years from Earth.

This means that stars have already managed to be born, flare up and explode just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

NASA has shared an image of the Moon taken from Galileo.

The unusual colors in the photo indicate the diversity of the soil.:

🔴 — lunar hills
🔵 — the presence of titanium in the soil
🟠 — volcanic activity

🟠 Footprints on the red planet.

The Curiosity rover has looked back, capturing its path across the dusty surface of the Red Planet.

The dynamics of vortices in the upper cloud cover of Jupiter, compiled from images obtained by the automatic interplanetary station "Juno"

James Webb captured the aurora borealis on Neptune for the first time.

The huge size of space objects

Capture the Starship Super Heavy B15 booster during the IFT-8 mission. Shot in slow motion

Here are the aurora borealis on Jupiter. Taken using the ultraviolet vision of the Hubble telescope.

Venus rising against the background of the sun's disk.

Do you see a bright object with a tail? It's not a comet. This is MERCURY!

Yes, yes, the smallest planet in the Solar system has its own tail. It consists of sodium, which the solar wind literally blows off the surface of Mercury. From a distance, it looks like a glowing trail — and it's quite easy to confuse it with a comet.

Even the most modest planets can surprise.