Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago

Mar 13, 2026 - 18:45
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Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
An artist’s impression of a migration of the Sun and its stellar twins from the center of the Milky Way approximately 4 to 6 billion years ago. Image credit: NAOJ.

Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that our home star traveled outward with thousands of stellar counterparts roughly 4 to 6 billion years ago, offering new clues to the formation of the Milky Way’s central bar.

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