Skip to main content

70,000 years ago, a nomadic star (Scholz's Star) came within a light-year of the Sun, flinging dozens of comets and asteroids out of the solar system. And in about a million years, another star named Gliese 710 will pass five times closer than Scholz's Star, likely kicking out millions of objects.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

More than eight million to 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly every year, costing the legitimate market between $9 billion and $17 billion in trade each year. The study looked at catch losses for 143 countries

Post a Comment
Read more

TIL that even in the Middle Ages, scholars never believed the Earth to be flat. The notion that authorities believed firmly in a flat Earth is a modern falsehood to discredit religion in the face of science. Even most Christian scholars acknowledged that Earth was spherical.

Read more
Post a Comment
Read more