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Snapshot of the ancient stellar flyby. The turquoise particles indicate the TNOs injected into the planet region by the flyby. The perturber star passed through the disk at a perihelion distance of 110 AU on the right-hand side of the picture. Image credit: Pfalzner et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02349-x.

Close Passage of Sun-Like Star Shaped Outer Solar System Billions of Years Ago, Research Suggests

Sep 10, 2024 by Natali Anderson

At least 140 million Sun-like stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are likely to have experienced a similar stellar flyby, according to new research by a team...