Scholz's Star is a tiny red dwarf and its brown dwarf companion. The duo is currently 29 light years away, but a recent study of its motion suggests it passed within a single light year of the Sun 70,000 years ago.
The mass and luminosity of the star are so low, however, that the close encounter probably had little to no effect on the Solar System.
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