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Astronomers and amateur stargazers have used an unusual technique to find a solar system that closely resembles our own and say it may be a new and more productive way to scour the universe for planets — and life. They said technique, called...

]]> Astronomers and amateur stargazers have used an unusual technique to find a solar system that closely resembles our own and say it may be a new and more productive way to scour the universe for planets — and life.

They said technique, called microlensing, shows promise for finding many more stars, perhaps with Earthlike planets orbiting them.

“We found a solar system that looks like a scaled-down analog of our solar system,” Scott Gaudi of Ohio State University, who led the study, told reporters.

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