The team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the California Institute of Technology revealed that the solar system's planets would eventually be engulfed by the sun, which is something that study lead author Kishalay De had learned about in high school.
The star swells to a million times its original size as it runs out of fuel, and astronomers observed this as a bright flash, followed by a more prolonged and colder signal that they attributed to the star consuming a planet.
