Thursday, February 14, 2008

Found: Solar System With Planets Like Saturn, Jupiter

By Rob Waters
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- In a solar system some 5,000 light years away, two planets much like Saturn and Jupiter are orbiting a star roughly half the size of our sun, astronomers say.
The newly discovered complex seems like a parallel star system to the one that includes Earth, researchers say. Both of the planets are composed largely of gas and each is a bit smaller than its counterpart in our solar system. The smaller planet is about twice the distance from its star as the larger one, just as Saturn is roughly twice as far from the sun as Jupiter.

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