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by andsoitis 855 days ago
> how stars come within 1 light year of our Sun every 300,000 years.

A few years ago, research using Gaia data indicated that the last such close encounter was about 70,000 years ago, when the star WISE J072003.20-084651.2 — also called Scholz’s Star, after the discoverer — passed just 0.8 light-years from the Sun.

- https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/bad-astronomy-several-stars-h...