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Star system has recorded eight exoplanets─── 08:55 Sat, 16 Dec 2017
Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.
BBC reports it's the largest number of worlds ever discovered in a planetary system outside our own.
The star known as Kepler-90, is just a bit hotter and larger than the Sun; and astronomers already knew of seven planets around it.
According to scientists, the newly discovered world is small enough to be rocky.
This makes Kepler-90 the first star to host as many planets as our own Solar System.
Engineers from Google used a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning to find planets that were missed by previous searches.
The discovery was based on observations gathered by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope.
BBC
