A star might not gobble a Jupiter whole when it moves close enough, but it could surely swallow a canapé like proto-Earth.
即便离得足够近,恒星也无法整口吞下木星大的行星,但它要吞下地球这么大的行星肯定是小菜一碟。
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Current thinking is that some 4 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into the proto-Earth, knocking off a chunk of planet that eventually formed into the moon.