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2017-02-27, 13:52

NASA/ESO Discover 7 Earth-like Exoplanets (3 in Habitable zone) around nearby Ultra-cool Brown Dwarf



230 Trillion Miles / 40 Light Years Away...

Orbiting an "Ultra Cool Brown Dwarf" not much bigger than Jupiter...



Tidally locked planets ranging from 1 Day to 20 Day orbits mean you'd age very quickly



NASA home page with links to full res media

Details of the Trappist-1 system from Spitzer Space Telescope

Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are other Earth-sized planets in a spectacular planetary system outside our own. These seven rocky worlds huddle around their small, dim, red star, like a family around a campfire. Any of them could harbor liquid water, but the planet shown here, fourth from the TRAPPIST-1 star, is in the habitable zone, the area around the star where liquid water is most likely to be detected. This system was revealed by the TRansiting Planets and PlanetIsmals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The planets are also excellent targets for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Take a planet-hopping excursion through the TRAPPIST-1 system.

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NASA-JPL/Caltech
Apologies for not posting this last week when the news broke... my old iPadv3 did too

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