Nine Exoplanets Discovered in Solar System's 'Twin'

Nine Exoplanets Discovered in Solar System's 'Twin'

In 2010, a star 127 light-years away stunned the world -- it had become the largest star system beyond our own, playing host to five, possibly seven, alien worlds. Now, the star (called HD 10180) is back in the headlines; it may actually have nine exoplanets orbiting it.

Interestingly, HD 10180 is a yellow dwarf star very much like the sun, so this discovery has drawn many parallels with our own Solar System. It is a multi-planetary system surrounding a sun-like star. But it is also a very alien place with an assortment of worlds spread over wildly different orbits.

It is believed that one of HD 10180's exoplanets is small -- although astronomers only know the planets' masses, not their physical size or composition. The smallest world weighs-in at 1.4 times the mass of Earth, making it a "super-Earth."

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It appears that at the rate these announcements are coming a big one cant be far off - habitable planet..

Of course ET would be cool to but we put our dreams away for now..

The number of planets strips our solar system for most planets and also takes the title from Gileise.

Article from last year talking about this system

I found this part particularly interesting.

The star is similar to our sun and its planetary lineup has an intriguing parallel with own solar system, although no clue has so far been found to suggest it could be a home from home, they said.