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NASA has announced the discovery of a strange new solar system with six planets orbiting around a sun-like star. The discovery, which was also published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, is mystifying astronomers and illustrates just how much variety is possible in the universe. Five of the planets were found to be in a closer orbit to their star than any planet in Earth's solar system. The team at NASA and a range of universities has named the system Kepler-11, after the orbiting Kepler space telescope that spotted it.
