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The sun may have a long-lost twin – Livescience.com
There’s a strange sphere of mass at the outer reaches of solar space.
The most distant region of our solar system
, a sphere of dark, icy debris out beyond Neptune, is too crowded. All that stuff out there, beyond the reach of the ancient disk of gas and dust that formed the planets, doesnt match with scientific models of how the solar system formed. Now, a pair of researchers has offered a new take on this far-out mystery: Our sun has a long-lost twin. And the two stars spent their childhoods collecting the passing debris from interstellar space, crowding the ou…
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