Astronomers are out looking for the sun’s long-lost siblings

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The sun has siblings out there, and astronomers are looking for them.

Astronomers have surveyed and collected the “DNA” of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which will help them understand how galaxies formed and evolved over time.

Dubbed GALAH, the group of Australian and European researchers have been working on the project since 2013, and on Wednesday they publicly released data for the first time. By the end of the project, they anticipate to investigate more than a million stars. Read more…

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