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A Stellar Flyby Jumbled Up the Outer Solar System


n ancient passerby may have visited the Sun and inadvertently helped shape the Solar System into what it is today. It happened billions of years ago when a stellar drifter came to within 110 astronomical units (AU) of our Sun.

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