In late April, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun. The Lyrid meteors streak across the sky between April 16 and April 25, so skywatchers have a chance to see them during that window, weather […]
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Star ‘DNA’ Survey Could Reunite the Sun with Its Long-Lost Siblings
Elements in distant stars could reveal whether they originated in the same stellar nursery as our sun. Is the sun due for a cosmic family reunion? A new survey of 1 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy could help astronomers link our sun to its long-lost siblings. The survey will identify stellar “DNA”: the […]