Washington, February 03: Nasa has announced the discovery of a new solar system that has six planets orbiting around their star.
And an orbiting space telescope has pointed scientists to more than 1,200 other possible exoplanets, planets outside our own solar system, the space agency NASA said.
The solar system discovery, published in the journal Nature, is mystifying astronomers for the time being and illustrates just how much variety is possible in the universe.
The team at NASA and a range of universities has named the system Kepler-11, after the orbiting Kepler space telescope that spotted it.
–Agencies