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Close Passage of Sun-Like Star Shaped Outer Solar System Billions of Years Ago, Research Suggests


At least 140 million Sun-like stars in our Milky Way Galaxy are likely to have experienced a similar stellar flyby, according to new research by a team of astrophysicists from the Forschungszentrum Jülich and Leiden University.

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