Our Sun Might Actually Be a Planet Killer New research suggests that billions of years ago, our young star may have ingested a super Earth sized world, leaving behind a chemical signature that could be detectable to this day.
The study's author, Mutlu Yildiz, an astronomer at Ege University in Turkey, has been trying to solve two long standing mysteries about the Sun.
First, conventional models of solar evolution struggle to replicate actual observations of the star's outermost layer.