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Astronomers from the St Andrews University in the UK found a planetary system orbiting a distant star that Looks Like the Solar System. This finding suggests that systems like the Solar System could be more common than previously thought. They also found planets that closely matched Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.

Dr Dominik told BBC News: "We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period.

"It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to our Solar System. And if this is the case, it looks like [our] Solar System cannot be unique in the Universe. There should be other similar systems out there which could host terrestrial planets."

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