Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars

Astronomers have uncovered signs that our Sun may have taken part in a large-scale movement of similar stars that left the inner regions of the Milky Way about 4 to 6 billion years ago. To investigate this possibility, researchers compiled and analyzed an exceptionally precise catalog of stars using observations from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite. Their results offer new insights into how the Milky Way evolved, particularly the formation of the rotating bar-shaped stru...