Found: Three new planets
TIME - Fri 27 Jul 12Not all solar systems are as tidy as ours, but a new discovery means we're not quite so alone anymore.
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Discover Magazine - Fri 27 Jul 12In a universe that exists in at least three dimensions and perhaps many more, our solar system remains an oddly 2-D place. At the center sits the Sun, with the eight planets spinning around ...
TweetKepler spots 'perfectly aligned' alien worlds
ABC Science - Wed 25 Jul 12PERFECT WORLDS: Astronomers have confirmed that our solar system isn't unique, after the discovery of a planetary system that is as flat and orderly as our own.
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Researchers measure orientation of multiplanet system, find it very similar to our own solar system
Phys.org - Wed 25 Jul 12Our solar system exhibits a remarkably orderly configuration: The eight planets orbit the sun much like runners on a track, circling in their respective lanes and always keeping within the same ...
Orientation of far-off multiplanet system has orientation very similar to our own solar system, ScienceDaily - Thu 26 Jul 12Alien multiplanet system oriented much like our own, Science Blog - Thu 26 Jul 12
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On the Same Plane
Science Now - Wed 25 Jul 12Planetary orbits in distant solar system aligned with star's rotation
TweetTidy close-match star system holds planetary pinball clue
Newscientist - Wed 25 Jul 12A trio of worlds that neatly circles its star is a close match to our solar system and may hint at the true culprits behind messier groups
TweetThree-planet system's regular orbits hint at orbital chaos elsewhere
Arstechnica - Thu 26 Jul 12Systems evolve from one disk then have orbital interactions destabilize them.
TweetNewly discovered solar system is very similar to our own
ZME Science - Thu 26 Jul 12Researchers at MIT, the University of California at Santa Cruz and other institutions have come across the first exoplanetary system, whose planets exhibit a regularly aligned orbit, after analyzing ...
TweetA second Earth? Telescope finds solar system that mirrors ours - and offers hope that life could thrive on its worlds
Daily Mail - Thu 26 Jul 12Dr Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda and colleagues at MIT analysed their transits over spots on the Sun-like star Kepler-30 and found they mirrored those round our Sun.
TweetAlien Solar System Looks a Lot Like Our Own
Livescience - Wed 25 Jul 12Researchers have identified an alien system whose planets are neatly aligned, just like our own cosmic neighborhood.
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Distant solar system offers planet clues
UPI - Fri 27 Jul 12SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say the finding of an alien solar system with planets arranged as in our own system suggests most planetary systems start out looking the ...
TweetGlitch may cut telescope's working life
UPI - Fri 27 Jul 12PASADENA, Calif., July 27 (UPI) -- NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has experienced an equipment glitch that could limit its useful scientific lifetime, astronomers say.
TweetKepler-30 Distant Solar System Shows Similar Geometry To Our Own
RedOrbit - Thu 26 Jul 12Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers have used NASA's Kepler to help spot another planetary system that has its planet neatly aligned, similar to our own Solar System. The ...
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