The life cycles of stars are fascinating, and sometimes the line between stars and planets isn’t as clear as it […] ...

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"Our ability to detect and observe young planets is often limited by how 'quiet' the planet's host star is," Galen Bergsten, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, told Space.com.

A study from 2023 concluded that ZTF SLRN-2020 was an evolved sun -like star called a " red giant " that had expanded, in the process engulfing a gas giant planet orbiting around it.