Something like this only occurs every nine million years. Astronomers say no other star is known to have approached this close to our Sun. This small, old, cool star, is also known as a ''red dwarf''.

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No other star is known to have approached this close to us. An international team of researchers says it came five times closer than our current nearest neighbour - Proxima Centauri. The object, a red ...