Alien solar system is like ours ... only weirder - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com

Alien solar system is like ours ... only weirder - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com: "Astronomers have discovered a group of at least five planets — with hints of two more — circling around a star in an arrangement similar to our own solar system. Confirmation of the extra planets would make this the highest tally of alien worlds ever spotted around a single star. The planets and their own sunlike star are about 127 light-years from Earth, astronomers with the European Southern Observatory said. It is one of just 15 planetary systems known to have more than three worlds. The five planets circle their parent star, HD 10180, in a regular pattern like the planets of our solar system, only in a more compact arrangement, the researchers said."