Astronomers `discover planets'

London - International teams of astronomers said they had discovered eight new planets outside our solar system.

London - International teams of astronomers said they had discovered eight new planets outside our solar system.

Five of the new planets were detected in the southern hemisphere by astronomers working with information from the European Southern Observatory's La Silla observatory in Chile. The scientists are based in Geneva.

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