Scholz’s binary star, discovered in 2013 AD and composed of a red dwarf and a brown dwarf, both very faint in luminosity and mass, passes just 52,000 AU (Astronomical Units = Earth-Sun distance) from the Sun (0.8 light-years). They are therefore undoubtedly interacting with the outer layers of the Oort Cloud, a repository of dormant comets, launching a certain number (perhaps several million) on the long journey (a couple of million years!) into the inner Solar System, while others may have been captured and still others ejected into interstellar space or even ultimately into extragalactic space.
