[MtnClimber]

Buy popcorn!

[pa_dweller]

massive star steamrolling through the outer solar system is exactly what Gaia data show will happen less than 1.4 million years from now, according to a 2016 study

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I wonder if lockdown will be over by then?

[Flick Lives]

3 light years: Distance to our solar system’s Oort Cloud
4.37 light years: Distance to Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighboring star

[Moonman62]

A massive star steamrolling through the outer solar system is exactly what Gaia data show will happen less than 1.4 million years from now, according to a 2016 study.

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I predict a toilet paper shortage in 1.4 million years.

[Berosus]

I thought the Oort Cloud was supposed to be closer than the Heliopause, the imaginary line between the solar system and interstellar space. Didn’t the Pioneer (10 & 11) and Voyager probes cross the Heliopause already? This article gives me another reason to ask if the Oort Cloud really exists.

[hotsteppa]

With what we know about gravity and massive objects how is this even possible?

[butlerweave]

Is that a song ?

[Theo]

“... stars pass through our solar system ...”

Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s ever happened, that another star has literally passed through our solar system.

[bert]

I was born under a wanderin’ star
I was born under a wanderin’ star

Wheels are made for rollin’
Mules are made to pack
I never seen a sight that didn’t look better looking back.

I was born under a wanderin’ star

Mud can make you prisoner
And the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes
But only people make you cry
Home is made for comin’ from
For dreams of goin’ to
Which with any luck will never come true

I was born under a wanderin’ star
I was born under a wanderin’ star

Do I know where hell is?
Hell is in Hello
Heaven is good-bye forever
It’s time for me to go

I was born under a wanderin’ star
A wanderin’ wanderin’ star

Mud can make you prisoner
And the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes
But only people make you cry
Home is made for comin’ from
For dreams of goin’ to
Which with any luck will never come true

I was born under a wanderin’ star
I was born under a wanderin’ star

When I get to heaven
Tie me to a tree
Or I’ll begin to roam
And soon you know where I will be

I was born under a wanderin’ star
A wanderin’ wanderin’ star

[I want the USA back]

Orbits disturbed. Unbelievably high tides. Massive climate changes. Surprised they haven’t blamed this on Trump.

[PIF]

Gliese 710 is a relatively dim, main sequence orange-red or red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity K5-M1 V (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database; ARICNS; Joy and Abt, 1974; and Upgren et al, 1972).

The star may have about 0.4 to 0.6 (possibly 42 percent) of Sol’s mass (García-Sánchez et al, 1999; and Weissman et al, 1997), possibly 67 percent of its diameter (Johnson and Wright, 1983, page 691), and only 4.2 percent of its visual luminosity. It is not a strong radio emitter.

However, Gliese 710 is a variable star with the New Variable Star designation NSV 10635. Some other useful star catalogue designations include: Gl 710, Hip 89825, BD-01 3474, HD 168442, HD 168442, U449, and Vys/McC 63.

http://www.solstation.com/stars2/gl710.htm

[tbw2]

A precursor to “Lucifer’s Hammer”

[Larry Lucido]

Better stay inside, just in case.

[fidelis]

I, for one, plan on being out of town that day.

[desertfreedom765]

If mankind is still around in some form by then and keeps progressing technologically, then they will just move the star by a couple of thousand AU’s.

[minnesota_bound]

1.4 million years from now we will be beings made of energy and with a mere thought fling the other star away.

[SuperLuminal]

My biggest hope is that the obunghole’s Pentagon will have been dismantled by then... I know that is probably a case of unbridled optimism, but I’m old and don’t know any better...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Wandering stars pass through our solar system surprisingly often

The Oort Cloud extends three-quarters of the way to our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri - if we're including the outer fringes of the Oort Cloud in our solar system, then yeah - I guess wandering stars would pass through surprisingly often.