28 May 2014

Ivan Ramirez - The Sun Family

From Nights, 7:10 pm on 28 May 2014
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The first 'sibling' of our sun has been tracked down by Dr Ivan Ramirez from McDonald Observatory in Austin Texas - it's been named HD 162826 and is just 110 light years away in the constellation Hercules.

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