Asteroid Belt Discovered Around Our Sun's "Twin" (1)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-21 23:08 ID:nCaRfR1H

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0421_050421_spitzer.html
The star, dubbed HD69830, is some 41 light-years away—which, in space terms, is practically our own backyard. Part of the constellation Puppis, the star is a tad too faint to see with the unaided eye.

Of the 85 stars Spitzer scientists have examined to date, only HD69830 yielded evidence of an asteroid belt.

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