Scientists have now done the math as to how much a passing star would need to perturb the solar system to destroy it.
0.1 percent if it nudged Neptune. Said star would have to pass within 23 billion miles of us (Proxima Centauri is 24.8 trillion miles away). And it would start a slow process that might take, uh...billions of years.
So, no, we're not all going to die and those disaster movies don't really work.
(Although there's still a plot bunny here...)
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