Star slated to pass dangerously near earth – later
Gliese 710 will traverse Solar Systems Oort Cloud in 1.35 million years, possibly sending comets in Earth’s direction

A star is slated to pass dangerously close to our solar system, possibly throwing a wave of comets at earth — but don’t worry: it’s only scheduled in a million years.
The star, Gliese 710, is expected to pass near our Solar System in about 1.35 million years. At its closest, light emanating from Gliese 710 will take 77 days to reach Earth, according to Gizmodo.
Gliese 710 will pass at a distance of 13,365 AU of Earth’s sun; 1 AU is the distance from Earth to the sun. While not exactly close at 1.2 million miles, in cosmological terms the distance is small enough for Gliese to draw in its gravitational force comets from the Solar System’s Oort Cloud, a cloud of ice and rock surrounding the sun to a distance of c. 50,000-200,000 AU.
At about 60% of the sun’s mass, Gliese 710 will send a comet shower into the inner Solar System.
According to Gizmodo, astronomers Filip Berski and Piotr Dybczński from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland used data collected by the Gaia space observatory and their calculations show that the minimum distance of the star will be almost five times closer than previous estimates. At that distance, the star will appear as the brightest and fastest object in the night sky.
“[This] event [will be] the strongest disrupting encounter in the future and history of the solar system,” Gizmodo quoted from the authors’ study.
Hopefully by then, Earth will have figured out how to stop it.