Planets Remarkably Similar to Jupiter And Neptune Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star

When it comes to finding life on other planets, a warm, wet world bubbling with a complex soup of chemicals might not be enough. It could pay to have the right kinds of planets in the neighborhood as well.
An intriguing pair of gas giants has been found orbiting a star so similar to the Sun it could practically be its twin, and it could teach us a thing or two about solar systems like ours.
Located just 175 light-years away, the star HIP 104045 appears to have at least two large worlds whizzing around it – one about half the mass of Jupiter on a 6.3-year orbit, and the other about 2.5 times the mass of Neptune on 316-day orbit.
This discovery, submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and available on preprint server arXiv, is helping us understand the variety of systems that can orbit Sun-like stars, in the hopes of finally finding a second Earth.
Planets Remarkably Similar to Jupiter And Neptune Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star