Our sun may have a long lost twin at the far
reaches of the solar system, a new study suggests.
The research, published in The Astrophysical
Journal Letters, said traces of our sun's
"temporary binary companion" are seen in the
Oort cloud - a little-known region of comets
and space rocks at the limits of the sun's
influence.
NASA described the Oort cloud as "the most
distant region of our solar system" and it
is believed to hold billions of pieces of
space debris the sizes of mountains and sometimes
larger.
During its formation, massive chunks of rock
and ice were catapulted into the Oort cloud
from newly-formed solar system along with
space debris from other planetary systems.
Researchers think that holds clues to our
sun's long-lost twin, and is part of the binary
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