News Sun’s close encounter with Scholz’s Star 18 February 2015 Astronomy Now Astronomers using large telescopes in South Africa and Chile identify the closest known flyby of a star to our Solar System: a low-mass star system nicknamed “Scholz’s Star” that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago.
News Two families of comets found around nearby star 24 October 2014 Astronomy Now ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created.