70,000 Years Ago When a Real Shooting Star Passed by at Close…

How could they even know this?  It is mind boggling what astrophysicists can figure out with math.  Apparently we had a cosmic close call not that long ago.  This is a transcription and intro from the video:

70,000 thousand years ago, an alien passed though our solar system. But not a little green man in a flying saucer, a big ball of burning gas. Astronomers have discovered that a real shooting star, came five times closer than our current nearest neighbor Proxima Centauri.No other star is known to have approached this close to us. The object, a red dwarf nicknamed Scholz’s star, cruised through the outer region of the solar system known as the Oort Cloud. The essentially failed star, wasn’t alone either, it was accompanied on its travels by an object known as a brown dwarf making it a binary star system. Astronomers discovered that the dim stars passed a very close 0.8 light years from the Sun, in comparison, our closest neighboring star Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away.

Is this too much or what?  Enjoy the video.

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16 Comments

  1. Dwight Wyble said:

    So this red dwarf and its companion pass within the ort cloud, wouldn’t it have its own ort cloud with this said. Wouldn’t those be even closer to the planets and left some residue(comets) from the encounter that should be still around?

  2. Dusty Hampton said:

    They can if slung by a black hole or another star. Planets are shot from their orbits all of the time by another celestial bodies and usually become rouge planets. It’s the same with stars, if a star were to orbit a black hole (preferably a super massive black hole) close enough, it can be slung out of the galaxy and sped up to a third of the speed of light in the process if conditions are right.

  3. David Pace said:

    The mere fact that you would say that a “star” becomes a rogue “planet” would indicate to me that you truly do not comprehend the composition of stars….

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