Hashhashin
Padawan Learner
Another day, another C's confirmation?
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/alien-star-missed-us-less-light-year-scientists-say-n307996
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04655
I'd be curious to know what others think, and what the C's know about this event and its impact on our solar system, and our planet.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/alien-star-missed-us-less-light-year-scientists-say-n307996
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04655
Astronomers say a red dwarf star and its brown dwarf companion passed within a light-year of our own sun 70,000 years ago, moving through the comets in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud that surrounds our solar system.
The star is known as WISE J072003.20-084651.2, or Scholz's star. Today, it's 20 light-years away from us in the constellation Monoceros. But in a study published by Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers say it passed right by us at a distance of 5 trillion miles (8 trillion kilometers, or 52,000 astronomical units, or 0.8 light-years). No other star has been known to come that close.
I'd be curious to know what others think, and what the C's know about this event and its impact on our solar system, and our planet.

