Nope, never returning. It’s far, far above solar escape velocity at that distance. Here’s a color visible+infrared picture of the star I took last weekend though:
http://h.dropcanvas.com/vrq2y/ScholzHDRLabeled2.jpg
And here’s an animation of its motion over the last 60 years. It’s the star moving in the center of the image:
http://h.dropcanvas.com/vrq2y/scholzanimationfullresolution.gif
It gets suddenly brighter in the last frame because my image consisted of red+infrared light whereas the others used in the animation were red light alone.
It’s amazing to see several other objects in motion in that gif... and Scholz’s Star is the one that is supposed to be moving nearly directly away from our solar system! Thanks for sharing this! Seriously, thanks.
