NASA finds another Solar system with 8 planets which is similar to ours

Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence that was launched by NASA has discovered a eight-planet solar system which is similar to our solar system. This is named as Kepler 90 and it is 2,545 light years away from the Earth.

Kepler 90 Solar system discovered by Kepler 90 Telescope: 2500 light years ahead from Earth

NASA in a statement has said that “Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star.”

An astronomer, Andrew Vanderburg at the University of Texas at Austin said, "“The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system, you have small planets inside and big planets outside, but everything is scrunched in much closer.”

NASA twitted as, "With the discovery of an 8th planet orbiting another star 2,500 light years away, we now have another solar system that ties ours for number of worlds! Learn about the #Kepler90 system."

The newly identified planet, Kepler-90i, is a planet like Earth, but orbits its star once every 14.4 days, meaning a full year there is the same as two weeks on Earth.

Vanderburg said, “Kepler-90i is not a place I’d like to go visit, though, its surface is likely far too hot.”

NASA calculated its average temperature which is about 426 degree Celsius -- as hot as Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun.

The Kepler Telescope was launched in 2009, and has scanned around 150,000 stars. Astronomers have already confirmed the existence of some 2,500 far-away worlds using Kepler data.

A senior software engineer with Google’s research team, Christopher Shallue said “I became interested in applying neural networks to astronomy when I learned that the Kepler mission had collected so much data that it was impossible for scientists to examine it all manually.”

“Maybe there are systems out there with so many planets that they make our eight-planet solar system seem ordinary.”