Deploying the massive Keck telescope in Hawaii in a new planet search, a team of astronomers has detected two planets orbiting Sun-like stars, bringing to 12 the number of distant worlds discovred beyond our solar system.One of the new discoveries, a Jupiter-sized sphere that most likely apepars deep blue-violet, barely skims the outer reaches of its yellow star, passing 25 times closer to the star than the earth's orbit of the Sun, and nine time closer than Mercury's path around the Sun.Its close orbit allows it to circle its star about every three days. In contrast, the other new planet has a more Earth-like orbit. Its average distance from its star is nearly the same as the Earth-Sun distance, the first planet discovred with such a familiar distance.