The Sun isn’t the only star in this galactic neighbourhood. Other stars also call this neighbourhood home. But what’s the neighbourhood’s history? What triggered the birth of all those stars? A team of astronomers say they’ve pieced the history together and identified the trigger: a series of supernovae explosions that began about 14 million years …



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