A crowded Extra-Solar system

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Published on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:30:18 GMT Indexed on 2012/10/23 17:02 UTC
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The orbiting Kepler telescope has found another unusual alien solar system. The Kepler telescope monitors star for changes in their brightness. The light resulting curves can be seen at http://www.planethunters.org.

Recently an extra-solar system with 4 stars (planets orbiting two of the stars with the other two stars orbiting as a distant binary pair) was discovered using by two "arm-chair" astronomers using the above web site.

Find out about the crowded KOI-500 alien solar system, in this SPACE.com infographic.
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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