![]() NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Now, just need a spacecraft, and a quick one at that. ![]() ![]() Now, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, researchers have upped the total to 7 exoplanets. The TRAPPIST telescope in Chile originally discovered 3 exoplanets. The system is named TRAPPIST-1 (Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). And, even more fascinating, three of the system’s planets are within the so-called “Goldilocks” habitable zone. The cool news is that on the cosmological distance scale it’s relatively close, only around 40-light years away - a mere 230 trillion miles or so. ![]() This time they’ve discovered 7 exoplanets all revolving around the same distant star. Those bright women and men at NASA have done it again. ![]()
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