The system bears some similarities to our own, but all seven planets orbit much closer to their host star, which lies some 2,500 light-years from Earth.The crowded solar system is described in two papers published on the pre-print server Arxiv.org.
We keep finding, in these niche cases, in these odd cases, in these complicated cases that humans can beat the computers”Dr Chris LintottUniversity of Oxford
One of the identifications was made by volunteers using the Planet Hunters website. The site was set up to allow volunteers to sift through the public data from Nasa's Kepler space telescope - which was launched to search for so-called exoplanets - worlds orbiting distant stars.

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