Star near the constellation of the Eagle swelled disproportionately, and made only a mouthful of the planet that was too close to it. Astronomer Kishalay De observed with a special camera at the Caltech Observatory a star that began to shine a hundred times brighter than usual for about ten days.
The digestion went smoothly, according to Morgan MacLeod, co-author of the study and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Scientists saw afterwards "the star slowly contract and return to its previous size," he said.