From the NYTimes.com
Astronomers report that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. In the newly discovered system, a planet about two-thirds of the mass of Jupiter and another about 90 percent of the mass of Saturn are orbiting a reddish star at about half the distances that Jupiter and Saturn circle our own Sun. The star is about half the mass of the Sun. Neither of the two giant planets is a likely abode for life as we know it. But warm rocky planets — suitable for life — could exist undetected in the inner parts of the system.
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Astronomers report that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. In the newly discovered system, a planet about two-thirds of the mass of Jupiter and another about 90 percent of the mass of Saturn are orbiting a reddish star at about half the distances that Jupiter and Saturn circle our own Sun. The star is about half the mass of the Sun. Neither of the two giant planets is a likely abode for life as we know it. But warm rocky planets — suitable for life — could exist undetected in the inner parts of the system.
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