{"id":796167,"date":"2025-05-16T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796167"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:24:06","slug":"risk-of-a-star-destroying-the-solar-system-is-higher-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796167","title":{"rendered":"Risk of a star destroying the solar system is higher than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A passing star could send planets scattering<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Triff\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto\u2019s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury to fly into the sun \u2013 or even catastrophically altering Earth\u2019s orbit and climate. The overall risk of these events is still low, but the greater influence of passing stars means that events like these might be commonplace in other planetary systems.<\/p>\n<p>While the orbits of the planets were once thought to be as predictable and unchanging as clockwork, modern astronomers have found that on long timescales, they are\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480410-risk-of-a-star-destroying-the-solar-system-is-higher-than-expected\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passing star could send planets scattering Triff\/Shutterstock Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto\u2019s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}