Key Points
The white dwarf WD 0810-353 is a dense stellar remnant, the final evolutionary stage of a Sun-like star..
Last year, researchers using the Gaia space telescope predicted that this rogue star was on a collision course with our Solar System...
In a recent turn of events, astronomers have discovered that the white dwarf star WD 0810-353, previously predicted to collide with our Solar System in approximately 29,000 years, is not heading our way after all...
The initial calculations were based on the Gaia measurements, which suggested that WD 0810-353 would come dangerously close to our Sun, within the Oort cloud, a shell of icy debris at the distant edge of the Solar System...
Stefano Bagnulo, an astronomer at Armagh and co-author of the study, stated, "We found that the approach speed measured by the Gaia project is incorrect, and the close encounter predicted between WD0810-353 and the Sun is actually not going to happen..
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