One of the most mystifying planets to many of us are the hot Jupiters. These massive worlds have orbits smaller than Mercury’s and in some cases are so close to their stars that starlight is pushing mass off the planet or the planet is raising tides on the star. Exactly how you snuggle a planet next to a star and have it stay there is … confusing. And now we know, not all the planets succeed in getting close without falling in. Back in 2019, a star about 12,000 light years from Earth, in a particularly crowded part of the sky, was observed by the NEOWISE mission to start shining with a lot...