Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own
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This artist's rendering of a distant solar system shows the location of two newly discovered planets -- one resembling Jupiter (middle right) and one resembling Saturn (bottom). The question mark indicates where an inner system of planets would be located -- if the solar system contained terrestrial planets similar to Earth. Ohio State University astronomers led an international collaboration that published the discovery in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science. Image courtesy of Cheongho Han and colleagues at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
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