The Newspaper Shop -- Thursday edition

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by walktalker
Found: Solar System Like Our Own
There's another solar system like ours, and it's very close by. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the Carnegie Institution announced Thursday that they've found the first planetary system that closely resembles our own. The system centers around the sun-like star 55 Cancri, which lies in the Cancer constellation, only 41 light years away. Just around the corner, in astronomical terms. Since 1995, scientists have discovered about 80 planets outside of our solar system. But none of these "extrasolar" planets really looked like any of the ones in our backyard; they orbited too close to their stars, mostly making elongated, uneven rotations.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,53188,00.html

Cosmic news like this are always fascinating... if you're interested in the topic see also this Nasa article, the attached artwork is from there.

Thanks again WT, you rock!

- tg