At Least One Star Will Have a Very Close Encounter With Our Sun. The Sun is good. Without our hot, gas ball of a friend, wed all be dead. More accurately, we would have never been bornSo its a good thing that our Sun has escaped some very close encounters with other stars throughout its lifetime. But the danger isnt over yet. New research from the European Space Agency ESA studied the motions of 3. Milky Way Galaxy, tracing the paths of those stars relative to the Sun, and anticipating their movements up to five million years into the future. ESA astronomers used the Gaia cataloguewhich contains data on roughly a billion starsto make their determinations. From their calculations, researchers predict 9. Sun by about 9. 3. Sixteen stars will graze our Sun at a distance of 3. While that seems like a lotbecause it isthe ESA reports this is actually considered reasonably near. At least, its near enough to potentially perturb the Oort cloud, a vast belt of icy cometary objects encircling our Sun at mind boggling distances. One star in particularGliese 7. Earth Sun distances in about 1. Of all the stars the researchers studied, this is by far the closest one that will pass our star. While scientists have actually known about Gliese 7. Sun much closer than previously thought. Its tango with our Sun could send a lot of comets into the inner Solar System, potentially on a collision course with Earth or other planets. So even if youre having a bad day here on 1 AU, remember things could always be worse you could be witnessing an alien sun colliding with our own, ushering in the literal apocalypse. ESA. Enraged Crowd Swarms Mustang After It Plows Into Them At Car Show. The Ford Mustang threat never went away. It just got quieter, as its owners seemingly got more cautious. But at a car meet in California this weekend, the threat returned, and this time the crowd fought back. Some harrowing videos from Saturday nights Big Bang Meet in Bellflower, CA show how a Mustangforever the usual suspect when it comes to crashing into people at Cars and Coffee and other eventsran straight into a group of spectators after attempting some kind of sad, aborted donut. This time, the crowd was not having it. Videos show dozens of bystanders mobbing the white Mustang convertible, climbing on the hood and striking it with belts and rods, all while the owner attempts to drive away, presumably in search of a new pair of pants. Its not clear who the driver of the white Mustang convertible was. The local NBC News affiliate also said no injuries were reported in the crash, although some of those videos make it look like at least a few people were hurt. The NBC station reports the crowd dispersed when police arrived, and officials may seek to prosecute those involved. Its horrible to watch on a lot of levels, especially with the terrifying and racially charged incident in Charlottesville last weekend still fresh in peoples minds. This may have been just a garden variety act of Mustang dumbassery rather than an intentionally violent act, but its yet more proof that a car can be a weapon in the wrong hands. Hat tip to Paulo. This update will see the death of the old email program Outlook Express, as well as the depreciation of the popular Paint application. As Microsoft told Gizmodo back. The Sun is good. Without our hot, gas ball of a friend, wed all be dead. More accurately, we would have never been born So its a good thing that our Sun has.
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