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Solar system's look alike found?

From the BBC news page. A researcher from University St. Andrew’s, Scotland claims to have observed a solar system that is remarkably like ours; the star is smaller and there are two Jupiter and Saturn homologues. To quote:
“Dr Dominik told BBC News: "We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to our Solar System. And if this is the case, it looks like [our] Solar System cannot be unique in the Universe. There should be other similar systems out there which could host terrestrial planets."
Solar System's 'look-alike'

It is predicted that many more simialr systems will be found in short order. If true this is certainly exciting and should begin to narrow down where to start looking for life beyond the solar system
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7333155.stm

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