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Asteroid Belt Discovered Around Our Sun’s “Twin”

April 23, 2005

Washington, D.C. - NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a massive asteroid belt around a "twin" of our own sun.

The discovery may help reveal how other Earth-like planets could be formed and whether our own solar system is common or unique in space.

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