It's heartwarming to find a planetary system that finally reminds us of our solar system".
"To this I would add," she adds, "- sometimes a planetary system".
An elegant pinwheel, designed to map the links among genetic mutations, looked like an old-fashioned representation of a planetary system in orbit.
"Fundamental changes on a planetary system scale have already begun," said co-author Peter Haff, a geologist and engineer with Duke University.
Also, a planetary system must have the correct alignment so that a planet's orbital plane will pass in front of its star.
A team of astronomers led by Michel Mayor of Geneva Observatory detected a planetary system around the star HD 40307 that resembles the solar system.
I turned to the lighting controls, which reminded me of a map of a planetary system, and my figure, whom I had taken to calling Gus, cast a vast shadow in what looked like an empty room.
B3 SCIENCE/HEALTH Another Jupiter Astronomers have for the first time found a planetary system -- 55 Cancri, 41 light-years away -- that in some respects reminds them of the Sun's family of planets, especially Jupiter.
A mass ratio as small as about 1 20 could occur about 5 percent of the time, and under these circumstances a planetary system comparable to the solar system is able to form.
"The most important thing is to understand how a planetary system evolves, and maybe our solar system will experience the same process in the next two or three billion years".
For the second time in a week, astronomers yesterday announced the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet around a distant star, and they say this one could be part of a planetary system more similar to the Sun's than any yet discovered.
