2ND SUN FOUND?

let's face it as stars go our sun is actually well pretty boring come on there's nothing unusual about it there are millions of similar yellow dwarfs in the universe and yet we love it after all it's the only star we have and it gives us life however it wasn't always like that once upon a time the sun had a twin possibly an evil one what happened to it well let's find out now this here is a giant molecular cloud they're also sometimes called dark nebula here there are many Interstellar clumps full of gas dust and piles of stars these clouds have no clear boundaries and often take weird crazy forms you can even see some of them with the naked eye look at the clear sky at night they look like dark spots all across the bright Milky Way and this is exactly where our son was born about four and a half billion years ago the sun originated from one of these molecular clouds billions of years ago waves of energy were passing by here they collected all this material and compressed these clumps into dense nuclei that's when a protostar was born protostar was a ball of lukewarm hydrogen and helium and then millions of years later the temperature and pressure inside the balls increased as a result a star was born the Sun but not everything in this molecular cloud has turned into the Sun the remaining materials began to revolve around the new star and as you might have guessed they gradually turned into planets including our Earth this is how our solar system was created but it's quite possible that this is not the whole story and that at the same time along with our star another one was born the Lost twin of the sun made from the same materials under the same conditions but why do we think that it exists well recently scientists have launched some statistical models to find out more about the birth of stars and these models have shown that many stars appear not individually but in clusters or at least with one sibling after more research scientists confirmed that yep most stars form inside molecular clouds are born with a companion sometimes these companions stay together for example a small star will revolve around a large one they can even form double triple and other star systems and sometimes their paths May diverge forever this probably happened to our son as well it could have had a sibling too perhaps not even one but a whole cluster of little brothers and sisters and one bigger twin with a similar mass and other characteristics but if that's the case then where are you our lost win

well we have one hypothesis and according to it this twin may not be as good as it seems in the 1980s scientists began to notice a certain pattern in the Earth's history approximately every 27 million years give or take large-scale extinctions occurred on our planet pretty strange right every 27 million years in the history of Earth some kind of catastrophe occurred that changed its biosphere forever as if something as scheduled cyclically caused them then an astronomer Richard Mueller suggested that there may be something that caused the events a certain Celestial body according to him it could be a dwarf star that we can't see because of how dim it is it could be located about one and a half light years away from us this star rotates around the Sun in a huge orbit and it approximately takes a whopping 27 million years for it to finish its orbit and when it gets closest to the Sun it starts to cause complete chaos while approaching us this Troublemaker changes the trajectories of comets in the Oort cloud or the Kuiper belt as a result all these comets start to rush straight toward us then they crash into the Earth and cause mass extinctions just like it was with Dinosaurs this hypothetical star was named Nemesis it's the name of the ancient Greek deity of Retribution what is it retaliating against us for?

Perhaps it didn't like the fact that once upon a time, the sun removed almost all of the dust and gas from a molecular cloud, leaving the sun as a relatively large star while the twin remained dark and small, and was ultimately forced to fly away into the void. Scientists have proposed various hypotheses as to what the enigmatic Nemesis is. Perhaps it is a brown or a red dwarf, the remnants of a star that has completely depleted its fuel, or perhaps it is not a star at all but a rogue planet larger than Jupiter. Whatever it is, its existence isn't particularly pleasant for us, but all our attempts to find the perpetrator have thus far been unsuccessful. recent Studies have called into question the theory of regular mass extinctions if you look more into fossil records you'll notice that these catastrophes occurred rather randomly rather than on a clear schedule now scientists doubt if Nemesis may actually exist they also say that any star moving in a similar orbit would be very unstable and it's very unlikely that it could have survived for that long but despite the lack of clear evidence Nemesis had become quite Famous online many articles and news still mention it in different contexts they like to write off any dramatic events taking place in the world like asteroid Falls tsunamis and so on on this mysterious star so now all this may seem like a typical urban legend but let's not forget about something important even if Nemesis itself doesn't exist it doesn't mean that the sun didn't have a twin first of all everything we talked about at the beginning is still relevant most stars aren't born alone the probability that our son also had a sibling is still very high secondly there may be evidence of the existence of this lost twin and is probably somewhere in the Oort cloud this is a huge cloud in the outer limits of our solar system it consists of a bunch of comets and other cool rocks now scientists believe that this Cloud stores various remnants and fragments of everything that remained after the birth of our solar system it's like a huge Museum of our past so in this Oort cloud scientists have noticed something interesting basically this region seems to be too heavy what the Oort cloud actually looks like doesn't correspond to our current models of the formation of the solar system it's too heavy because there are some remnants of something in it so there used to be something in the solar system that we don't know about yet but when scientists included a possible second sun in their calculations it fit just right like a missing piece of a puzzle the Lost twin perfectly matches the Gap in the weight of the Oort cloud so yeah the sun almost certainly had a twin but what happened to it and where is it now unfortunately this star is most likely already very far away probably after their birth the Son and Daughter okay Sun 2.0 spent only a couple of million years together and then they had to separate completely now the second Twin may be hundreds of light years away from us it can be anywhere in the Milky Way and yeah theoretically we could find it but that would be quite difficult to do this we need to find all the stars similar to our sun about the same age all over the Milky Way galaxy and even if we make a list of these Stars what's next we have no way of knowing which one was really the twin of the Sun so the Lost twin will most likely remain lost and our sun will remain forever lonely ah what a sad story but cheer up for us it's probably the best If we had two sons, the solar system might not have evolved into what it is today, our planet might not exist at all, and that would mean there would be no life, so we should probably be grateful for the sun's sacrifice. subscribe for more curiosity