Studying a star in the Big Dipper, astronomers have for the first time found a planetary system that reminds them of home.
Artist’s depiction of the outer of the two planets circling the star 47 Ursae Majoris (bright point of light near upper left). View is from an imagined, volcanically active moon of the outer planet. Arrow indicates the inner planet.
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