Astronomers have discovered an 11.2 billion-year-old solar system that, with 5 exoplanets, bears a striking resemblance to a portion of our own.
Astronomers have discovered an 11.2 billion-year-old solar system that, with 5 exoplanets, bears a striking resemblance to a portion of our own.
The star around which the planets orbit is named Kepler-444 and the discovery of this ancient system has answered some questions about such formations, but it’s also raised a number of new ones.
Among the matters its clarified, is whether or not the conditions that resulted in the more recent creation of our own star system are required.
The very existence of the newly found yet very old celestial grouping shows that they are not, as it developed back when the universe was a very different place.
Of course the fact that such a thing did occur conjures a bevy of other ponderable topics.
One is how the extended timeline affects current estimates for the number of planets out there.
Perha
Astronomers have discovered an 11.2 billion-year-old solar system that, with 5 exoplanets, bears a striking resemblance to a portion of our own.
The star around which the planets orbit is named Kepler-444 and the discovery of this ancient system has answered some questions about such formations, but it’s also raised a number of new ones.
Among the matters its clarified, is whether or not the conditions that resulted in the more recent creation of our own star system are required.
The very existence of the newly found yet very old celestial grouping shows that they are not, as it developed back when the universe was a very different place.
Of course the fact that such a thing did occur conjures a bevy of other ponderable topics.
One is how the extended timeline affects current estimates for the number of planets out there.
Perha
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