The Sun's "identical twin" may have been discovered

Our Sun may live a pretty lonesome life nowadays, but when it was born some 4.6 billion years ago, it was the middle child in a family of thousands. All of these siblings have since spread throughout the galaxy, which makes it hard to identify them. But now astronomers in Portugal have found not just a solar sibling but a "twin," more or less identical to the Sun, meaning it's a great place to look for extraterrestrial life.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• Astrophysics
• Gaia
• Stars
• Sun

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