A recent discovery was made by a team of scientists that apparently came across what appears to be the first solar system like our own. They actually even managed to take a picture of it, showcasing its Sun-like star which is orbited around by multiple other exoplanets.
There are plenty of systems out there that feature one planet orbiting around a bigger planet, but seeing multiple ones is rather rare, to say the least as this is the first instance of something like this ever happening.
According to them, this could actually help us understand how our own solar system was formed, and more importantly, how we all evolved around our own current Sun.
Alexander Bohn, a Ph.D. student at the Leiden University from the Netherlands that helped make the discovery stated that this is an exact replica of our own system, only that it is at a much earlier stage in its evolution than our own.
They actually managed to take the picture using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. The system was known as TYC 8998-760-1 and according to the experts, it resides somewhere around 300 light-years away from us. We have already discovered over a thousand planets similar to our own out there in space but we’ve actually never found one that seems to have gone through the same “transit” method as our own did.
Seeing the formation of these planets altogether might help us uncover the truth behind our genesis after all too.
