{"id":122548,"date":"2021-05-13T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/in-1-3-million-years-a-star-will-come-within-24-light-days-of-the-sun"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:22:53","slug":"in-1-3-million-years-a-star-will-come-within-24-light-days-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/in-1-3-million-years-a-star-will-come-within-24-light-days-of-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"In 1.3 Million Years, a Star Will Come Within 24 Light-Days of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-1-3-million-years-a-star-will-come-within-24-light-days-of-the-sun3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the Milky Way, there are an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/123225\/how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way-2\/\">200 to 400 billion stars<\/a>, all of which orbit around the center of our galaxy in a coordinated cosmic dance. As they orbit, stars in the galactic disk (where our Sun is located) periodically shuffle about and get closer to one another. At times, this can have a drastic effect on the star that experience a close encounter, disrupting their systems and causing planets to be ejected.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing when stars will make a close encounter with our Solar System, and how it might shake-up objects within it, is therefore a concern to astronomers. Using data collected by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sci.esa.int\/web\/gaia\">Gaia Observatory<\/a><\/em>, two researchers with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academy.ac.il\/Index7\/Entry.aspx?nodeId=864&entryId=18906\">Russian Academy of Sciences<\/a> (RAS) determined that a handful of stars will be making close passes by our Solar System in the future, one of which will stray pretty close!<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by Vadim V. Bobylev and Anisa T. Bajkova, two researchers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaoran.ru\/\">Pulkovo Observatory\u2019s Laboratory of Galaxy Dynamics<\/a> in St. Petersburg, Russia. As they indicated, they relied on astrometric data from the Gaia mission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/gaia\/earlydr3\">Early Data Release 3<\/a> (EDR3), which revealed kinematic characteristics of stars that are expected to pass within 3.26 light-years (1 Parsec) with the Solar System in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Milky Way, there are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars, all of which orbit around the center of our galaxy in a coordinated cosmic dance. As they orbit, stars in the galactic disk (where our Sun is located) periodically shuffle about and get closer to one another. At times, this can have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}