Pinning down the sun’s birthplace just got more complicated
Our star’s birthplace might have been a tight, stellar cluster, researchers say
![Star cluster in the Rosette Nebula](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/070920_lg_sun-birthplace_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C579&ssl=1)
Many astronomers think that a loose association of thousands of stars, like the cluster NGC 2244 in the Rosette Nebula shown here, is where the sun was born. A new study suggests there’s another possibility.
JPL-Caltech/NASA, Univ. of Ariz.