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Originally Posted by 968rz
That article seems to point more towards a Brown dwarf star than a planet so no green chicks.
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a star is any body that emits energy generated from thermonuclear reactions, a brown dwarf is just a very large Jupiter, they sometimes emit in the infrared due to gravitational contraction but they aren't big enough for fusion reactions, many have been found orbiting neighboring stars where they are close to the primary and cause noticeable perturbations in the primaries motions, if this proves out ours is so far out that it only affects the Oort cloud gravitationally the distances are staggering
here's a graph showing the current planetary distances from the Sun
To show the distance to Tyche you need another graph, notice that the distace from the Sun to Earth, Mars or any of the other planets out to Pluto at this scale is indistinguisable from zero, that's "far out man" (sorry, couldn't resist
