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The Sun May Have Had Its Twin Ripped Away Billions of Years Ago – ExtremeTech
This might explain some of the more perplexing things about the solar system, such as the nature of the Oort Cloud and even the murky Planet Nine.
For the entirety of human history, we’ve looked up and seen just a single sun, but a new study claims we almost had a second. This scenario, put forward by astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian, features our solar system forming as a binary with another star that eventually drifted away. This might explain some of the more perplexing things about the solar system like the nature of the Oort Cloud and even the murky Planet Nine.
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