A very exciting discovery was announced today at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France. Astronomers have detected a planetary system containing at least five - and maybe seven - planets that orbit a star called HD 10180, which is much like our own Sun. They say this is the "richest" system of exoplanets - planets outside our own Solar System - ever found. Up until now, astronomers had known of fifteen systems with at least three planets, but never one that was this similar to ours in...
Published on August 24, 2010 08:21