'Rogue' star won't collide with our solar system in 29,000 years after all

Space.com ^ | 11/7/2023 | Robert Lea

[Rio]

The solar system of the far future is safe from a run-in with a runaway dead star.

Last year, researchers looked at the trajectory of a rogue white dwarf star called WD 0810–353 with the Gaia space telescope and predicted that it was due for an encounter with our solar system in around 29,000 years.

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While the sun's fate is likely sealed, new research has revealed that our planet at least won't have to worry about being decimated by the chaos caused by runaway white dwarf WD 0810–353 after all. In fact, the "rogue" star won't just miss the solar system; it might not even be headed our way at all, astronomers say.

[Rio]

One less thing to worry about!

[No name given]

Indeed.

[Billthedrill]

Well, that is coming right off my calendar, for sure.

[Rummyfan]

Well, that’s a relief.

[DugwayDuke]

My dog is disappointed.

[Zack Attack]

‘Rogue’ star won’t collide with our solar system in 29,000 years after all

How could she even live that long?

“Rogue is a 2020 American action thriller film starring Megan Fox and Philip Winchester,”

[COBOL2Java]

Last year, researchers looked at the trajectory of a rogue white dwarf star called WD 0810–353 with the Gaia space telescope and predicted that it was due for an encounter with our solar system in around 29,000 years.

So we've got some time, then.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

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Oh darn. I'd just returned my overdue library books, too!

[jmacusa]

Aw shoot. And I was hoping I wouldn’t have to pay off my credit card debt.

Thanks a lot Mr. Dead Star.

[j.havenfarm]

Can I go back to buying unripe bananas?

[rightwingcrazy]

All that lost sleep for naught.

[Rappini]

That okay I’ll wait.

[NWFree]

I’m so relieved now I’ll be able to sleep at night except for the sun going out eventually

[murron]

Finally! I can get a peaceful night’s sleep.

[The_Harlequin]

Even our scientists suffer from the same substandard education that plagues our population. The author should have done the math. The odds of a collision are about as likely as everybody in Florida winning the lottery in the same week. You can’t even graph it on paper, the distances are so astronomical. And I daresay that two galaxies could pass through each other without even a close call.(I’m guessing that the Hubble telescope has spotted one or two doing just that.

[muir_redwoods]

Never forget, you’re most often reading what a J-school dweeb thought he heard and not necessarily what the scientist actually said

[SunkenCiv]

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