“This discovery of the first ever quintuple planetary system has me jumping out of my socks,” says group member and veteran planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley. “We now know that our sun and its family of planets is not unusual.”

The new planet was found in the constellation of Cancer, in the first multi-planet star system similar to our own that has been discovered.

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