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How Common are Solar Systems Like Ours? 
Universe Today | by Nancy Atkinson | Tue, Jan 5
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Solar system montage. Credit: NASA On the whole, we'd like to think we're special, but we also hope we aren't alone in the Universe. Astronomers have been trying to figure out just how common solar systems like ours are across the cosmos, and during one moment of epiphany one scientist figur...
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