An AP article from yesterday describes the recent scientific finding of what astronomers think is the first data recording of a dying, expanding star swallowing a Jupiter-sized planet: "Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago near the Aquila constellation when the star was around 10 billion years old [...] there was a swift hot outburst of light, followed by a long-lasting stream of dust shining brightly in cold infrared energy."
Something similar is expected to happen to the inner two planets of our own solar system, and possibly to Earth and Mars as well, once the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and begins expanding, starting about 5 billion years from now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion
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