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While the image is special, according to astronomers it's not as novel as a Reddit post claimed.

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

    “It’s increasingly seeming that the solar system is something of an oddball,” said Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “While it’s still too soon to know for sure how odd the solar system is, if it turns out to be a cosmological anomaly, then so might be Earth – and life.” ESO’s VLT Captures a “Very Young Version of our Own Sun” “This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, b...