Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The unassuming star centered in this sky view will one day be our next door stellar neighbor . The faint 9th magnitude red dwarf , currently 63 light-years away in the constellation Ophiucus , was recently discovered to be approaching our Solar System. At that distance this star, presently much too faint to be seen by the naked eye, will blaze at 0.6 magnitude - rivaling the apparent brightness of the mighty red giant Antares . Ultimately Gliese 710 poses no direct collision danger itself although its gravitational influence will likely scatter comets out of the Solar System's reservoir, the Oort cloud , sending some inbound.
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