Solar system like ours discoveredJuly 26th, 2012 - 10:06 pm ICT
by IANS London, July 26 (IANS) A solar system arranged just like
our own has been discovered a thousand light years from the
Earth, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. The planets, captured
by the Kepler space mission, line up in a way similar to those
in our solar systems, with their orbital planes aligned with the
equator of their Sun. Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda and colleagues at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed their transits
over spots on the Sun-like star Kepler-30 and found they
mirrored those round our Sun. There are only three planets in
the alien solar system, compared to the eight in ours, but it is
the first time one with the same alignment as our own has been
found. The observation described in Nature sheds light on the
conditions that determine the architecture of a planetary
system, the newspaper added. - Nasa space telescope spots odd
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