Sun's first sibling found

Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered our sun’s first ‘’sibling’’.

The team of researchers led by astronomer Ivan Ramirez discovered the star that was born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our sun. Know as HD 162826 and situated in the Hercules constellation 110 light years and is 15% larger then our sun.

The researcher hope that the methods used to identify our sun’s other siblings could lead to an understanding of how and where our sun formed, and how our solar system became hospitable to life.

Ramirez told the University of Texas news site “We [people] want to know where we were born, If we can figure out in what part of the galaxy the sun formed, we can constrain conditions on the early solar system. That could help us understand why we are here.”

According to Ramirez this could also provide a “small, but not zero,”  chance of finding stars that could host planets that could support life.