{"id":12145,"date":"2022-07-12T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12145"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T18:05:22","slug":"starpocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/12\/starpocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Starpocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/solar-system-collapse-passing-star-b2120397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The solar system could collapse because of a passing star, scientists predict<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/adam-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our solar system is about to collapse!!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vhqCVDuLsFY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/neptune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neptune<\/a>\u2019s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/solar-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solar system<\/a>\u00a0to collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research, presented in&nbsp;<em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, suggests that a \u201cstellar flyby\u201d &#8211; a relatively common occurance in the universe &#8211; could be enough to sent the other planets crashing into each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is possible that if\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mercury<\/a>\u00a0and Jupiter\u2019s perihelion &#8211; the point at which the planets reach closest to the Sun &#8211; fall in sync, two possibilities could occur. Mercury could be pulled out of its orbit and either shoot out of the Solar System or head on a collision course with Venus, the Sun, or the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/solar-system-collapse-passing-star-b2120397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent The solar system could collapse because of a passing star, scientists predict by Adam Smith Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves\u00a0Neptune\u2019s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our\u00a0solar system\u00a0to collide. The research, presented in&nbsp;Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}