NASA's TESS telescope spots 6 exoplanets around 'misbehaving' toddler star

Interesting 6 exoplanet system reported here. "The planets in the system, designated names between TOI-1136 b to TOI-1136 g, are classed as "sub-Neptune" planets. The smallest of the six confirmed worlds has a width twice that of Earth, while some of its sibling planets are as large as four times the size of our planet — around the size of the solar system ice giants Uranus and Neptune. All of the TOI-1136 exoplanets are so close to their parent star that they complete an orbit in less than 88 Earth days. This is significant because 88 days is the orbital period of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, meaning that all these planets may be closer to their star than that tiny planet is to our star."

This solar system reported is not a good analog to our solar system. Property details can be found here. https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/

The semi-major axis range 0.05106 to 0.229 au and the host star is about 1.022 solar masses, so a bit larger than our Sun. There are 889 exoplanets reported in systems from 2 to 8 at https://exoplanet.eu/home/ and 947 reported at https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html

Demonstrating that these multi-planet systems known today are a good analog to our solar system (configuration and mass distribution) looks challenging. TRAPPIST-1 system is found in my queries too. At the moment, I have not seen reports where these multi-planet systems have earthlike worlds orbiting them and with life on them too. K2-18 system is found too but recent reports suggest the exoplanet where JWST may have found phytoplankton and an ocean world, could be a magma world too.
 
Correction, 889 host stars with multi-planets and 947 host stars with multi-planets ranging 2-8 exoplanets each system. TRAPPIST-1 has 7 exoplanets as an example. There are plenty of solar system examples now beyond our own.
 

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