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Star System Similar to our Own Found

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Star System Similar to our Own Found

Postby Zancarius » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:40 am

Okay, so it wasn't really found, but it just so happens that we now have the technology to give it a more scrupulous examination.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200822.html

As it turns out, Epsilon Eridani (9th closest system to our own) has a composition scientists believe to be very similar to ours during a comparable stage of evolution. Incidentally, E. Eridani's first asteroid belt is almost as far away from the parent star as ours at about 3 AU.

Sure, some of our visitors may not care all that much, but it's an exciting time to be alive!
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