00:03in around seven and a half billion years our son will become a red giant and drastically expand in
00:09size that means it will eventually consume earth however experts say there could be other ways our
00:15solar system central star might end up gobbling up our planet recent stellar surveys of nearby
00:20systems have revealed that sometimes a planet will develop what they refer to as a wobble
00:25this instability is not well understood but experts posit planets between a star and a super
00:30earth-sized rocky world might be the cause this gravitational tug of war between a star and a high
00:35mass planet could cause the steady spin of a planet caught in the middle to deteriorate and wobble
00:40eventually pulling the smaller planet out of orbit and into its host star that theory would mean we
00:45have nothing to worry about in that regard however the number of instances in which a star in each of
00:49the surveyed systems has eaten a planet recently is rather concerning and may point to a more
00:54spontaneous cause the study revealed that one in twelve nearby systems had a planet that was
00:59recently gobbled up meaning either the stability in our solar system might be pretty rare or there's
01:03some other sinister physics at work we're not yet aware of
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