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‘Rogue’ Star Won’t Collide With Our Solar System in 29,000 Years After All
Space.com | 11/7/2023 | Robert Lea

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.

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.

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