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Charles Q. Choi

A mass stellar migration billions of years ago may have helped life get started on Earth

Stars similar to our sun formed a mass migration from the center of the Milky Way, occurring approximately 4 billion to 6 billion years ago.

Our sun and a host of sun-like "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life as we know it, new research finds.

Around the Milky Way are solar twins, stars that physically appear very similar to the sun. By analyzing solar twins, astronomers hope they can learn more about the history of the sun.

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