Could the Sun Have Devoured a Super-Earth? New Study Suggests a Planetary Feast
A Turkish astronomer’s simulations propose that the young Sun may have ingested a rocky super‑Earth (five to ten times Earth’s mass), delivering lithium-poor and heavy-element-rich material that better matches the Sun’s current structure and lithium depletion; the result aligns solar models with observations, though it stops short of proving such an ingestion occurred; future work aims to detect similar fingerprints in other stars.