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The sun’s ‘long-lost BROTHER’ revealed: Star born from same gas cloud discovered – and it could host planets with alien life
- The star, named HD 162826, is 15 per cent more massive than our sun
- Scientists believe it was born from the same gas cloud as our own star
- HD 162826 is located 110 light-years away in the constellation Hercules
- As well as helping find alien life, star could shed light on how sun formed
Astronomers believe they have found the sun’s ‘long-lost brother’ – a stellar body born from the same gas cloud as our own star.
The researchers claim there is even a ‘small’ chance that this solar sibling could host planets that harbour life.
But even if its solar system proves barren, the discovery could help scientists find other stellar twins that may help shed light on how our sun formed.
The University of Texas says the star, called HD 162826, is 15 per cent more massive than our sun and located 110 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The star is not visible to the unaided eye, but easily can be seen with low-power binoculars, not far from the bright star Vega.
‘We want to know where we were born,’ Professor Ivan Ramirez from the University of Texas at Austin said.
‘If we can figure out in what part of the galaxy the sun formed, we can constrain conditions on the early solar system. That could help us understand why we are here.’
In their earliest days, collisions could have knocked chunks off of planets, and these fragments could have travelled between solar systems.
These may have been responsible for bringing primitive life to Earth.
Or, fragments from Earth could have transported life to planets orbiting solar siblings.
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