Astronomers Discover Scaled-Down Jupiter and Saturn in a Faraway Solar System Like Our Own (2 of 3)

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Astronomers Discover Scaled-Down Jupiter and Saturn in a Faraway Solar System Like Our Own (2 of 3)

Caption: This artist's rendering of a distant solar system shows two newly discovered planets -- one resembling Jupiter (middle) and one resembling Saturn (middle right). Both planets orbit a star that is about half the size of our sun. The light from a more distant star (upper right) made the discovery possible, as it brightened and dimmed through a phenomenon called gravitational microlensing. Ohio State University astronomers led an international collaboration that published the discovery in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science.

Credit: Image courtesy of Cheongho Han and colleagues at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.

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