A star passing close enough to the solar system can do considerable damage, including *ejecting entire planets into interstellar space*. Weird thing is, one of the planets most vulnerable to this is NOT the one you'd think.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-the-solar-system-lose-a-planet-to-a-passing-star/
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This is very close to a plot point of Perihelion Summer.
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