Posted on 05/22/2020 6:50:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I wonder if lockdown will be over by then?
3 light years: Distance to our solar system’s Oort Cloud
4.37 light years: Distance to Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighboring star
A massive star steamrolling through the outer solar system is exactly what Gaia data show will happen less than 1.4 million years from now, according to a 2016 study.
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I predict a toilet paper shortage in 1.4 million years.
As long as it is brown dwarf stars passing by, we should be OK. A red giant at end of life or a WolfRayet star would be bad news.
I thought the Oort Cloud was supposed to be closer than the Heliopause, the imaginary line between the solar system and interstellar space. Didn’t the Pioneer (10 & 11) and Voyager probes cross the Heliopause already? This article gives me another reason to ask if the Oort Cloud really exists.
With what we know about gravity and massive objects how is this even possible?
Is that a song ?
I wonder if Hillary will finally be charged with something by then.
Yeah a Wolf-Rayet would disturb more than a few comets. Not to mention the radiation.
“... stars pass through our solar system ...”
Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s ever happened, that another star has literally passed through our solar system.
Racism has no place on FR. (/jk)
A brown dwarf star is not so massive and would only be visible in infrared. A brown dwarf could be as small as a little over 10 times the mass of Jupiter.
It’s apparently relative - 1.4 million years from now being considered the not-too-distant future.
As long as it is brown dwarf stars passing by, we should be OK. A red giant at end of life or a WolfRayet star would be bad news.
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You may be thinking of the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud is much, much further than the heliopause. Its inner boundary is roughly 2,000 AU distant and it extends out about 1 light-year.
The Voyagers won't reach the Oort cloud for several centuries.
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I was born under a wanderin star
Wheels are made for rollin
Mules are made to pack
I never seen a sight that didnt look better looking back.
I was born under a wanderin star
Mud can make you prisoner
And the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes
But only people make you cry
Home is made for comin from
For dreams of goin to
Which with any luck will never come true
I was born under a wanderin star
I was born under a wanderin star
Do I know where hell is?
Hell is in Hello
Heaven is good-bye forever
Its time for me to go
I was born under a wanderin star
A wanderin wanderin star
Mud can make you prisoner
And the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes
But only people make you cry
Home is made for comin from
For dreams of goin to
Which with any luck will never come true
I was born under a wanderin star
I was born under a wanderin star
When I get to heaven
Tie me to a tree
Or Ill begin to roam
And soon you know where I will be
I was born under a wanderin star
A wanderin wanderin star
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