Astronomers Have Detected a Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System

By Michelle Starr How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is pretty hard. Yet astronomers have just made one – of a Kuiper belt-like feature around a star 320 light-years away. It is, they say, the first polarimetric detection of the inner ring …