<p>I did some research and a likely candidate is hot Jupiter type migration where the orbit didn't stabilize and crashed into the parent star.</p>

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2017-07-31T16:55:50.090Z
Why the downvote? This looks like a perfectly valid question to me.
zephyr
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2017-07-31T21:33:32.603Z
If you google "star eating planet," Google seems to have quite a few results.  Here is an example of one: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/planet-eater.html
Cody
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2017-08-01T23:02:59.853Z
Cody What I had in mind was more of an impact rather than a gradual mass loss, hence the word "crash".
historynerd
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2017-08-23T15:30:24.230Z
Comets regularly get vaporised for getting too near the Sun, it is believed. Obviously "comets" aren't planets, but there is plainly a parallel.
adrianmcmenamin
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Any observed example of a planet hitting its parent star?
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# Any observed example of a planet hitting its parent star?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-07-31)

I did some research and a likely candidate is hot Jupiter type migration where the orbit didn't stabilize and crashed into the parent star.

**Tags:** impact, orbital-migration

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Why the downvote? This looks like a perfectly valid question to me.  
> **username_2**: If you google "star eating planet," Google seems to have quite a few results.  Here is an example of one: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/planet-eater.html  
> **username_0**: username_2 What I had in mind was more of an impact rather than a gradual mass loss, hence the word "crash".  
> **username_3**: Comets regularly get vaporised for getting too near the Sun, it is believed. Obviously "comets" aren't planets, but there is plainly a parallel.  

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