FINALLY OUR DUAL SUN IS DISCOVERED? ;-) EXCERPT Which makes news - TopicsExpress



          

FINALLY OUR DUAL SUN IS DISCOVERED? ;-) EXCERPT Which makes news just coming out of the University of Texas at Austin—soon to be reported in The Astrophysical Journal—particularly monumental. Our familiar star, it turns out, is not unique. Our sun has a sibling—a sister-star that almost certainly originated from the same cloud of gas and dust as our own shining orb. That sibling? A star with the deceptively dull name of HD 162826. Said star is 15 percent more massive than our sun, and located 110 light-years away from us (in the constellation Hercules, which is, appropriately, un-dully named). We cant see the suns sister unaided, but even a set of low-power binoculars reveals HD 162826 to human eyes. Its situated near (well, relatively near) the bright star of Vega. finance.yahoo/news/sun-sister-215510093.html
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 20:29:44 +0000

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