Star buzzed Solar System during human prehistory

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 12:01 in Astronomy & Space

Faint star with even fainter companion came close enough to perturb comets in the distant Oort cloud some 70,000 years ago.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16958

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