Stars in the Milky Way’s centre often get dangerously close together

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Distress

When a star passes one other star, any planets orbiting them might well additionally be flung into condo, destroying what might well once had been hospitable solar programs. And whereas uncommon within the outer aspects of our galaxy, such occasions will likely be regular within the inside regions of the Milky Approach.

That’s in accordance with researchers who possess discovered that about 80 per cent of stars in our galaxy’s central bulge traipse close by one other every billion years, getting within 1000 mammoth devices – 1 AU is the distance …