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July 2020

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Astronomers are learning a lot from the stars in our part of the Milky Way.

The Sun’s lost siblings

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Astronomers think it’s possible to identify the stars that formed from the same nebula as the Sun.

Is Eta Corvi a window to our past?

by Nola Taylor Redd
By studying this strange star, astronomers hope to better understand what happened early in the life of our own solar system.

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