Solar System Look-Alike Found 114
SpuriousLogic writes "Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought."
Dupe (Score:4, Informative)
[slashdot.org]http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/14/223241 [slashdot.org]
jdb2
Re:A bit of a reach (Score:3, Informative)
Re:rocky planets (Score:3, Informative)
Just not at the distance of this system.
An earth size rock could be detected any day now.
Re:A bit of a reach (Score:3, Informative)