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Observations of a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf show a new way that stars and their planetary companions can interact: “Instead of swallowing the thing up, the star can gradually eat it, for billions of years,” Kevin Burdge says. news.mit.edu/2026/astronome…

news.mit.eduAstronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

Oct 6, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

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