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Ep298 - Dr. Moiya McTier | The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

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The Anatomy of the Milky Way

This project that I had a great time doing in grad school looked at the motion of stars in the bulge. Most stars, 80% of them, have one of these close encounters with another star. An encounter within a thousand AU could definitely interrupt planets' orbits. It could rip a planet away from its host star. And if it happens early enough, it could actually interrupt the planet formation process altogether.

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