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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:33PM (#29763064)
I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet flies off in to deep space. And now their ancient civilization is frozen in time, adrift in deep space.
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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by wumpus on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:28PM (#29763528)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air

full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by tablespoon on Sunday January 02, 2022 @02:41AM (#29766685)
Also the "Silver Ghosts" [1] in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence [2].

[1] https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts

[2] Best read in the form of summaries and compilations of world-building backstory.

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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by perl4ever on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:01AM (#29766270)
Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision

It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.

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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:32PM (#29763554)
wow very cool thank you!
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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by xpl on Saturday January 01, 2022 @10:44PM (#29765598)
Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs

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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by apocalypstyx on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:49PM (#29764137)
Twilight Zone season 3 episode 10 titled "The Midnight Sun"
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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by john_moscow on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:05PM (#29765716)
Not exactly that, but there's a cool strategy game [0] about managing a city hit by a gradually increasing wave of freezing cold.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk

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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by rd07 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @05:05PM (#29763330)
This could be a scenario for a doomsday movie. On another note, I wonder if our solar system has been visited by such rogue planet in the past.
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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:30PM (#29763999)
Not exactly the same, but similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth
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