Earth flung out of orbit by star
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Is THIS how the world will end? Earth could be flung out of orbit
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Scientists from the Planetary Science Institute and the University of Bordeaux predict that Earth could be flung out of orbit by a passing star.
This would leave any inhabitants - including humans - to freeze to death.
Over the next five billion years , the chance of this happening is around one in 500 .
The most dangerous stars are those that come within 100 times as far as far from the sun as Earth is.
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