London - British scientists using a revolutionary new camera have found what they believe is conclusive evidence of planets circling four of the stars closest to our solar system, the Observer reported yesterday. "It's planets. I've no doubt," Dr Wayne Holland, one of the scientists at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory who developed the Scuba camera, was quoted as saying. No astronomer was available at the observatory to confirm the report.
The newspaper said the camera in Hawaii was used to investigate four stars, Beta Pictoris, Fomalhaut, Epsilon Eridani and Vega, all about 200 million years old.