* Blogmanac | Jupiter-Like Planet Discovered Light Years Away
LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers searching for signs of a Solar System like our own said today they had found a planet very similar to Jupiter orbiting a star resembling the Sun, 90 light years away. "This is the closest we have yet got to a real Solar System-like planet and advances our search for systems that are even more like our own," said UK team leader Hugh Jones of Liverpool John Moores University.
The planet was discovered by British, American and Australian astronomers using the 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales. With a mass twice that of gas giant Jupiter, the planet circles star HD70642 in the constellation Puppis once every six years.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers searching for signs of a Solar System like our own said today they had found a planet very similar to Jupiter orbiting a star resembling the Sun, 90 light years away. "This is the closest we have yet got to a real Solar System-like planet and advances our search for systems that are even more like our own," said UK team leader Hugh Jones of Liverpool John Moores University.
The planet was discovered by British, American and Australian astronomers using the 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales. With a mass twice that of gas giant Jupiter, the planet circles star HD70642 in the constellation Puppis once every six years.
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