Dr Mason on New Horizon Spacecraft and New Solar System Discovered

New Horizons' voyage through the Jupiter system in 2007 provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft. A combination of trajectory, timing and technology allowed it to explore details no probe had seen before, such as lightning near Jupiter's poles, the life cycle of fresh ammonia clouds, boulder-size clumps speeding through the planet's faint rings, the structure inside volcanic eruptions on its moon Io, and the path of charged particles traversing the previously unexplored length of the planet's long magnetic tail.

New Horizons passed our solar system's largest planet on its way to Pluto, which it should reach in 2015. I was right!!!

European Southern Observatory In Chile Discovers New Solar System.

The team used an instrument known as the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to locate the system.

Geneva University Observatory's Chiristophe Lovis led the team that made the discovery. He noted that it was possibly "the system with the most planets yet discovered."

The solar system is known to harbor five exoplanets (those outside of our solar system) circling a sun-like star HD 10180, and is suspected to contain two additional planets.

"It's a very interesting discovery," said Dante Minniti, an expert on exoplanets at Universidad Católica. "They have discovered a system of five planets, and if the other two are confirmed, this system would be the most similar to our own." LINK: Youtube