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Old 19-04-2018, 11:16 AM
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Scientists Think We're On The Cusp Of Finding The Sun's Siblings

http://www.iflscience.com/space/scie...suns-siblings/

If the great thing about this satellite is the sheer number of stars that it can measure, I wonder if a network of amateur spectographers could contribute too?

Keeping in mind I know next to nothing about spectroscopy and expect to be schooled in exactly why this is not possible in about 5 minutes time :-)

But the idea of knowing which stars came from the same stellar nursery is exciting nonetheless. :-)

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