Using Solar Analogues to Understand Our Sun

Researchers examined, analyzed and modeled the young Sun-like star Kappa 1 Ceti to understand how our Sun may have shaped Earth and possibly helped in the development of life.

IMAGE: Illustration of what the Sun may have been like 4 billion years ago, around the time life developed on Earth. CREDIT: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab

One of the benefits of being a planetary scientist is that we can usually touch samples of what we…