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All in the Family Jun 15, 2012 The Sun’s nearest neighbors do not share a similar chemical composition.
There are ten stars within 11 light-years of the Sun:
Star Name Distance
Proxima Centauri 4.2 light-years Rigil Kentaurus 4.3 light-years Barnard’s Star 5.9 light-years Wolf 359 7.7 light-years Lalande 21185 8.3 light-years Sirius A and B 8.6 light-years Luyten 726-8 A and B 8.7 light-years Ross 154 9.7 light-years Ross 248 10.3 light-years Epsilon Eridani 10.5 light-years
Each star in the chart is quite different from the Sun and from its neighbors. Ross 248 is a red dwarf star, while Sirius A is a main sequence star two times the Sun’s mass. Although a few stars share the red dwarf designation with Proxima Centauri and Ross 248, they are unique in their spectral signatures. Various elements in their spectrograms are distributed differently in each one.
Why the stars should be so unalike is a mystery to astronomers because all the stars, including the Sun, should have been born from the same mix of elements in a nebular cloud. The prevailing theory is that the Universe formed out of the largest structures imaginable: tremendous clouds and sheets containing millions of galaxies that broke up into the smaller dusty clouds, which then became individual galaxies.
The Milky Way galaxy is currently thought to contain almost a trillion stars in orbit around a common center of gravity. According to present understanding, it is theorized to have condensed out of a cloud of hydrogen and dust several thousands of light-years in extent, with a more-or-less homogeneous blend throughout—only minor variations in its elemental composition are supposed to have existed. Hydrogen, helium, and some trace elements organized into a great whirlpool-like structure that started spiraling inward due to gravitational influence.................... Quoting: observation [ link to www.thunderbolts.info]
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