Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 05:07
in Astronomy & Space
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and now new simulations show that, at least in galaxies similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate great distances. read more