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Are you suggesting that suns migrate?

Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in
Milky Way

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=26442

“A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out
in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.

Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is
true, and now new simulations show that, at least in galaxies
similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate
great distances.”

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