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NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovers alien solar system that looks strangely like Earth’s
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Most exoplanets are far larger than Earth, and many orbit in wild, eccentric orbits quite unlike the relative order found
in the solar system.
Now, according to a report from MIT, a team led by a physics graduate student at MIT has found an extrasolar planetary
system which has three planets orbiting their parent star in a similar fashion to the solar system. The team, led by
Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, used data from NASA’s orbiting Kepler space telescope to find their evidence.
The star studied by Sanchis-Ojeda’s team, Kepler-30, is known to have three planets, all orbiting in regular,
fairly circular orbits around their star.
However, Kepler-30 also has another feature: large spots, like the sunspots that occur on our own Sun, that frequently
cross the face of the star.
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