Looking at a star 90 light-years away, astronomers have found what may be the closest analog known to our solar system. By recording the motion of the sunlike star HD 70642 for 5 years, scientists have discerned that an unseen planet at least twice as massive as Jupiter is tugging on it.
JUPITER ANALOG. Orbit of the newly found extrasolar planet, depicted relative to the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in our own solar system.
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