SKIRMISHER

“We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to our Solar System. And if this is the case, it looks like [our] Solar System cannot be unique in the Universe. There should be other similar systems out there which could host terrestrial planets.”

– Martin Dominik, astronomer from St Andrews University in the UK, on a newfound planetary system 5000 light-years away that’s almost a copycat of the Solar System.

{Intriguing: How the Milky Way snatched the Solar System from its mother}

Stumble it!