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Sunday, February 17, 2008

New Solar System!

Astronomers have discovered a new solar system. It is 5,000 light years away. They discovered it by observing "gravitational lensing." This new solar system has "small" planets in it as well as big planets.

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Do you want to know what "gravitational lensing" is? http://wikipedia.org/ has some good pictures and animations. Here's the link:

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