As the U.S. celebrated July 4, the sun hosted its own fireworks display in the form of a coronal mass ejection "double punch" that NASA predicts could strike Earth on Friday (July 7).
A star was spotted for the first time eating a planet. Read to know the full story. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ) Star Rapidly Increases Brightness by 100 Times Before Fading as It Swallows a Planet Astronomers had finally witnessed a dying star engulfing a planet.