Astronomers say they have discovered a solar sibling to our sun, born from the same cloud of gas 4.5 billion years ago.
The star — named HD 162826 — was one of several thousand other baby stars (including the sun) that stayed together in a cluster for hundreds of millions of years before growing and drifting out across the Milky Way. The Los Angeles Times reports that the star is 110 light years away from the sun, and is slightly bigger, a little hotter on the surface, and has the same "chemical fingerprint."
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