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New research using ESA's Gaia satellite has identified 6,594 "solar twin" stars that appear to have migrated outward from the Milky Way's hostile center alongside our Sun between 4 and 6 billion years ago, propelled by the formation of the galaxy's central bar structure. The findings, published in two papers in Astronomy & Astrophysics, suggest the Sun's escape from a supernova-rich, radiation-dense galactic core to a quieter orbital neighborhood may have been a prerequisite for life to develop on Earth.