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A solar system including five Earth-sized planets has been discovered which is so ancient it was born not long after the dawn of time – and experts say it could help find life on planets far older than we expected.
The system’s parent star, named Kepler-444, is 117 light years from Earth and 11.2 billion years old.
When the sun-like star was formed out of a primordial cloud of gas and dust, the universe was just a fifth of its current age …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk