incarnuim t1_itrh0jj wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:33 PM

Reply to comment by cbusalex in If you lived on a planet in the center of the Milky Way would the nighttime be significantly brighter compared to Earth’s nighttime due to the larger concentration of stars? by bad_take_

Possibly, but I personally don't know enough to posit the effects of that on planetary systems. Have any other stars passed that close to us over the past several million years? If not, then Gliese 710 may be an atypical event...