Excerpt from
thespacereporter.com
It may seem like something sourced
directly from the fever dreams of Michael Bay, but it’s true. The star
known as HIP 85605 is on a collision course with our solar system.
We need not worry, however. According to study conducted by Dr. Coryn
Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg,
the binary star from the Hercules constellation will pass by our system
at a distance of 0.04 parsecs.
Despite what Han Solo would have you believe, a parsec is a unit of
distance and .04 parsecs translates to 8,000 times the distance between
the Earth and the Sun.
If that is still too close for comfort, know that this astronomical drive-by won’t occur for at least another 240,000 years.
“Even though the galaxy contains very many stars the spaces between
them are huge,” Bailor-Jones said. So even over the (long) life of our
galaxy so far, the probability of any two stars have actually
collided—as opposed to just coming close—is extremely small.”
The close encounter (on a universal scale, anyway) will be the first
since a gas giant passed within 0.35-1.34 pc of our solar system over
3.8 million years ago, according to Bailor-Jones.
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Colossal rogue star on collision course with our solar system…in 240,000 years
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