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GreenWave

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2. What we only know is a small picture right now.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2023, 08:35 AM

Dec 2023

Consider our "yellow" dwarf. How can it hold so many objects in its solar system now estimated to be 3 and one half light years across? Some conjecture is that our sun has a burnt out dwarf companion star in an exotic orbit enabling the system to "keep it together".

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