Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...

If the Sun were very different, we wouldn’t be here. A shorter-lived star wouldn't provide the opportunity for humanity to develop, a star that was more erratic would regularly fry us, and stars in ...