Coatlicue is the name given to the hypothetical
star that gave rise to the
Sun and then exploded as a
supernova. Coatlicue would have been at least thirty times the mass of the Sun, and while on the
main sequence its strong winds would have compressed the gas of the local nebula and given birth to hundreds of
stars, including the
Sun. The existence and the characteristics of this star were deduced from the presence of
aluminium-26 in
meteorites, which was expelled in the winds of the massive star.[1]
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2008ApJ...688.1382T.
doi:
10.1086/592184.
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