Scholz's Star

Scholz's Star

About 70,000 years ago, a Red Dwarf star passed very close (in astronomical terms) to our Solar System. So close in fact, that it passed through the Solar System’s outer shell known as the Oort Cloud and nudged some Comets out of their orbits. It may have been visible to early Humans and Neanderthals.

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