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Unearthing a duplicate

Unearthing a duplicate  we may not be the only ones. With the discovery of a new planet, a team of astronomers has come a step closer to finding solar systems that might have characteristics similar to our own. The team recently found a Jupiter-sized planet in a circular orbit around a faint star called 47 Ursae Majoris, which is similar to the Sun and about seven billion years old. The planetary system in the Big Dipper constellation is about 51 light years from the Earth