The picture is misleading. Scholz's star is a dwarf and was not visible by the naked eye even at closest approach, unless it happened to flare at the time (and

The picture is misleading. Scholz's star is a dwarf and was not visible by the naked eye even at closest approach, unless it happened to flare at the time (and even then would have been like the thousandth brightest object in the sky). https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/flyby.html https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/flyby.html