Update 2024-12-02-Rogue-Stars-Zoomed-By.md

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@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ The name of the astrophysicist mentioned and a link to their profile via Google
 Barely beginning to look into Susanne's research, also reminds me of: 
 - Some of research conducted by Dr. Avi Loeb's, along with his graduate students and other team members. The little I know about research that may be associated from some of the articles that I have stumbled across. Here is a link to [Dr. Loeb's profile on Google Scholar.](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=CvQxOmwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&citft=1&citft=3&email_for_op=adeelnkhan%40gmail.com&sortby=pubdate)
 - In terms of context and going back to article via Earth.com highlighted above (Susanne Pfalzer). For me: 
-  - The very first time that I heard about TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects) actually being called TNOs was via Professor Brian Cox. This must have been at-least 6 years ago and I cannot recall the source at this point. But I recall that it was via a video that I was watching. It's sad that the algorithms have gone all wonky on content based sites and discovery is not just broken, it feels like it has been weaponized. But that is a completely separate topic.
+  - The very first time that I heard about TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects) actually being called TNOs was via Professor Brian Cox. This must have been at-least 6 years ago and I cannot recall the source at this point. But I recall that it was via a video that I was watching. Today, I feel the search/discovery aspect is largely b0rked in a really bad way. But that is a completely separate topic. That being said and this is totally off-topic, but it must have been like 18 years ago, when I heard a venture capitalist speak about 'discovery being the new search.' I still feel that this area/realm can benefit us collectively and individually in so many different ways. On the other hand, I also feel that the way that algorithms are designed can and should occur a lot more consciously. However the autonomy angle takes off. This is off-topic. But if done with care, it could help us bring improvements relating to our understanding in the wider reality. But there are other moving pieces here.
   - Coming back to this topic, during the past couple of years and I cannot say that I think about this and associated areas often. But specific to the research for TNOs and in random order, I would think that only a handful of researchers are looking at this and associated areas/phenomenon around the world. And that the majority of the researchers are either from the UK (United Kingdom) and now Germany (Forschungszentrum Jülich) via [Susanne Pfalzer](https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/@@search?SearchableText=Susanne%20Pfalzner&active=relevance&allow_local=false&group_select=0&local=false)
-  - It was intuition and I guess relaxation, that lead me to think associated thoughts. I am very interested in the make/composition of the reality around the MilkyWay and the much more expansive (and relative) cosmological (most likely quantum) realms. Specific to TNOs, here are some of the posts that I can think of. The direct source for these posts is directly via Github (unless states otherwise, as in links via Youtube and external links that I did not provision e.t.c)
+  - It was intuition and I guess relaxation, that lead me to think associated thoughts. I am very interested in the make/composition of the reality around the MilkyWay and the much more expansive (and relative) cosmological (with it's grounding in, at the very least, quantum) realms. Specific to TNOs, here are some of the posts that I can think of. The direct source for these posts is directly via Github (unless states otherwise, as in links via Youtube and external links that I did not provision e.t.c)
   - [Links via Github](https://github.com/stellardreams/stellardreams.github.io/tree/master/_posts)
-    - A gravitational pull, that is 'not' normative to the typical and expectation gravitional pull of objects in and around the outer solar system region. Whereby the definition of outer solar system in this scenario would be in a confined space, but related to objects past the orbit of the planet Neptune. This is not a comprehensive timeline from my perspective, but I guess this is how one thing lead to another. 
+    - A gravitational pull, that is 'not' normative to the typical and expectation gravitional pull of objects in and around the outer solar system region. Whereby the definition of outer solar system in this scenario would be in a confined space, but related to objects that are beyond the orbit of  Neptune.
+    - The following (below), is not a comprehensive timeline from my perspective, but I guess this is how one thing lead to another. 
       - 10-18-2019 (Oct 18, 2019): I was at a hackathon and there was an image of [Sag A * (Sagittarius A star, the Supermassive blackhole at the center of the Milkyway)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*) that came up via the APOD bot via the Slack app.
         - It will take me a while to search for the same/similar image via [APOD search](https://apod.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search). But if memory serves me correctly, the image looked something like this. [image via nova.org](https://chview.nova.org/solcom/x-objects/sagdeg1.jpg). As well, some of the other images where I found this image, via the [following source](https://chview.nova.org/solcom/x-objects/sag-deg.htm)   
       -  10-29-2020 (Oct, 29. 2020): Much earlier and maybe around the year 2005 or in that range, is when I would have first heard about the mythical Planet 9. Not having an indepth knowledge of how real-estate is actually discovered in and around the solar system (as in, the methods leveraged) and realizing that a fair bit of territory needs to be covered. I didn't know how to think about why the so called/mythical Planet 9 was not discovered. Next and many years later, when the news item of a blackhole the size of a grapefruit came to my attention. This, then lead me to think about the kinds of behaviors that were being exhibited by bodies in the trans-Neptunian region(s). For the further evoluion of this theory, one of being a mythical planet that no one could locate, to a blackhole of a certain size. And so, on 10-29-2020, I made the following post on Github on this very blog. [Grape Fruit Sized Black Hole In The Outer Solar System](https://stellardreams.github.io/Grape-fruit-sized-Black-Hole-in-the-outer-solar-system/)
@@ -34,10 +35,14 @@ Barely beginning to look into Susanne's research, also reminds me of:
 
 Coming back to Susanne Pfalzner's and her students research one more time. I haven't personally had a chance to dive into this topic beyond the surface level. But again, to a non-astrophysicist like me, this seems like a very interesting and rich area of research. This is the kind of research that could open up a lot of other/different venues of research. This, I think, would be the kind of research that will help us understand not just the shape/composition and the history of our own solar system. But my intuitive guess is that it will also help us understand the set of dynamics in the wider MilkyWay. 
 
-After reading the article once (or twice), I had more questions. Including, but not limited to and in random order:
-- The central question, in my mind, of 'bands' around the MilkyWay, how they travel, how many branches these bands would have and the direction in which they travel and why. The Milkyway's merger with dwarf galax(ies), is, what I think has lead to these bands in the first place. The reason for me, why particular images via APOD captured my attention.
-- I am also thinking about the article via SciAm from 05-01-2021 (linked above about Stars zipping by at, I would think at or near relativistic speeds), Pfalzner's research, other thoughts related to trails of debris e.t.c and building up on that and if this is on topic the blogpost from 02-12-2021 about rocks like [Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov](https://stellardreams.github.io/Interstellar-Objects/) that have been observed to zip by the SolarSystem and Dr. Loeb's prediction, if I recall and at that time of an expectation of 1 such rock zipping by the solar system per month when new equipment goes online. 
+After reading the article once (or twice), I have more questions. Including, but not limited to and in random order:
+- The most obvious set of questions for me. Where are these stars coming from, the direction in which they are headed, frequency over time, size of stellar masses, the region through which they are zipping past, could the passage of these stars and objects like Oumuama and 2I/Borisov potentially be a sign that these are earlier indicators of some kind of a band. Skipping some segments, if Pfalzner's and her teams research does hold weight, then the link between a stellar object zipping through the solar system *and* and it's impact on TNOs is something that this team has modeled. Provided holes cannot be poked and as it relates to this theory, further weight could then be attached that this phenomenon is real. Whereby the passage of a stellar body does impact the orbital eccentricity of objects in a certain realm. Next, this is a very longshot, but I've been curious if 'perturbrations' in other parts of the solar system can indeed impact Milankovitch cycles on Earth and potentially on other planets. 
+- Next and builing up on a sub-question above and relating to the origin of such a stellar mass. The central question, in my mind, of there being 'bands' around the MilkyWay. Unless it's some freak probability that this was only one of some 100 Billion stars across the MilkyWay that zipped by the solar system for some really strange reason. If that probability equals close to zero and this stellar object is not zipping by in a solo fashion - then the probability equals higher that stars/dust/rocks (at the very least) are travelling in bands of sorts. (Not sure about blackholes). Relating to the objects within the hold of these bands, how they travel, how many branches do these bands actually have and the direction in which they travel and why.
+  - The Milkyway's merger with dwarf galax(ies), is, what I think has lead to these bands in the first place. The reason for me, why particular images via APOD captured my attention.
+- If we put on our risk hat, then we could (maybe) have a whole lot of questions. But that would, I think, be governed on questions related to celestial mechanics and the time-ranges involved. As, right now I am doing a surface level search and right now I don't know what 'reasonably frequent' translates into. [link](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03342). 
+- I am also thinking about the article via SciAm from 05-01-2021 (linked above about Stars zipping by at, I would think at or near relativistic speeds), Pfalzner's research, other thoughts related to trails of debris e.t.c and building up on that and if this is on topic the blogpost from 02-12-2021 about rocks like [Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov](https://stellardreams.github.io/Interstellar-Objects/) that have been observed to zip by the SolarSystem and Dr. Loeb's prediction, if I recall and at that time of an expectation of 1 such rock zipping by the solar system per month when new equipment goes online. I reckon this is the [Vera C. Rubin Observatory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory), but I cannot say for sure. But it's in an article where Dr. Loeb was interviewed relatd to this topic. Also, I feel like this item is being mentioned twice in this context. I know that I did mention interstellar objects, when I was drafting general timelines from my vantage point.
+- I have more questions, but so far I have dedicated 2 hours relating to this item today. I also have to come back and work on the structure and formatting of this blogpost as I wrote this myself. Getting AIs to write stuff, can often lead to the essential meaning being lost. 
 
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+ Anyhow, super interesting area of research!   
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