Found the Solar System miniature

International astronomers have discovered three new planets around a sun-like star, and hope to find planets of life in a few years.

International astronomers have discovered three new planets around a sun-like star, and hope to find planets of life in a few years.

Telegraph said astronomers from the UK, Australia and the United States found "miniature versions of the solar system" after observing the universe with an Anglo-Australian telescope in Australia and a Keck telescope in Hawaii. America.

Three planets revolve around 61 Virginis - a star about 27.8 light years from Earth. The mass of the planets is 5.3 to 24.9 times the globe.

Star 61 Virginis is located in the Virgo constellation (Virgo) and can be seen from the earth with the naked eye. It has a mass close to the sun (0.96 times) and has a slightly lower brightness.

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61 Virginis has nearly the sun's mass and brightness.

'It seems that the universe has many sun-like stars with planets about the size of Neptune. They will help us find smaller stone planets, where life can exist , 'said Professor Chris Tunney, an astronomer from the University of New South Wales (Australia).

The team also found a planet about the size of Jupiter around 23-star Librae - 84 light-years from Earth and belonging to the constellation Libra. This planet takes 14 years to rotate a closed loop around the star, a little longer than the time that Jupiter revolves around the sun (12 years).

Update 17 December 2018
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