Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Eyecatchers-162: Solar System that looks like Ours!

I came across this news item in the Chennai edition of The Times of India of July 27, 2012 under the section, TIMES TRENDS, which I would like to share here. Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system which has planets lined up in aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. At the centre of this system is Kepler 30, a star as bright and as massive as our sun.

For more on this topic:

On the Same Plane by Sid Perkins (July 25, 2012)


Science Now, News.ScienceMag.Org

Grateful thanks to The Times of India and Science Now.

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