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Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star
A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...
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Sun’s Ancient Encounter With Two Hot Stars Left A Legacy In The Solar System’s Neighborhood
The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...
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A comet from another star just passed through our solar system
A small, icy traveler from deep space has just threaded its way through the inner Solar System, offering a fleeting but ...
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...
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The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by ...
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