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Solar System Look-Alike Found

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the evil-twin dept.

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."

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  1. A bit of a reach by Bovius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, I have trouble whenever whenever an astronomer suggests that something they found "may be much more common than we thought." One observation does not mean way more common. It jumps the gap from "purely theoretical" to "proven possible", and in the data set of the known universe really isn't enough to make any type of assertion about commonality.

    Yes, I know, our solar system makes it two.

  2. Re:Must be our evil mirror solar system counterpar by BenSchuarmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    This solar system looks like ours, but it's only half our size.

    My theory is that we're both evil (like Doctor Evil and Mini-Me).