Not that Fomalhaut b, as the new planet is known, seems much more than a speck in the sky.

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Fomalhaut's disc has a hole in the middle, of the kind that any planets around the star would have swept out.

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If Fomalhaut b bears similarities to Jupiter in our own Solar System, we muse, could that mean that Jupiter is not unique?

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Wayne Holland, currently at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and his colleagues, who have just published their results in Nature, looked at three stars: Vega (350m years old), Fomalhaut (200m years), and Beta Pictoris (between 10m and 100m years), all within a few dozen light years of the earth.

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