Two new planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn, were discovered by scientists, revealing an entirely new solar system 5,000 light years away from our own.

The scientists, led by astronomy professor Andrzej Udalski, of the Warsaw University observatory, discovered the solar system by first detecting the presence of the star, which they identified to be smaller and much cooler than our own. An overlapping of the star and another much farther one visible from Earth resulted in the 500x magnification of the farther star. Discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), the phenomenon was dubbed OGLE-2006-BLG-109.

Astronomers from around the world were gathered to study the phenomenon, with Scott Gaudi of the Ohio State University taking the lead in data analysis.

Upon studying the event, termed gravitational microlensing, Gaudi saw some distortion, leading to the discovery of the Saturn-like planet orbiting the star. And a day after, he saw another signal caused by a second larger planet orbiting the same star.

"This is the first time we had a high-enough magnification event where we had significant sensitivity to a second planet - and we found one," Gaudi said, as quoted by Science Daily. "You could call it luck, but I think it might just mean that these systems are common throughout our galaxy."

Both planets are roughly 80 percent the sizes of Jupiter and Saturn, said the scientists.

"This is the first discovery of a multi-planet system that could be analogous to our solar system," researcher Alison Crocker, a student at Oxford University, told MSNBC.

The planets' formation led scientists to consider the relationship between temperature and planet formations. Gaudi explained that scientists theorize Jupiter being formed in its location was because it was the right position from the sun at which ice can form.

Gaudi said that finding an Earth-like or a Venus-like planet in that solar system might just be possible.