NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
Date:
February 22, 2017
Source:
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Summary:
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
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Imagine standing on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. This artist's concept is one interpretation of what it could look like.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170222130941.htm
