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NASA announces the discovery of 7 Earth-sized planets

This morning, NASA announced that it has found 7 earth-sized planets orbiting a star 40 million light years away, with life or water possible on all of these planets.
Posted by: admin , February 23, 2017
  • This morning, NASA announced that it has found 7 earth-sized planets orbiting a star 40 light years away, with life or water possible on all of these planets.
  • Of these planets, NASA believes 3 are in the’habitable zone’, being the area around the star where life is most possible.
  • The discovery was made using the Spitzer Space Telescope and is said to be the greatest number of ‘exoplanets’ found around a single star.
  • The star is called TRAPPIST-1, and it is significantly smaller than Earth’s sun.
  • The Hubble Telescope has started looking at 4 of these planets (including those in the habitable zone).
  • According to the head of NASA Science Directorate, this proves that “finding the next Earth is not a question of if, but when”.

Read more:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-announcement-today-trappist-1-alien-life-solar-system-latest-live-exoplanet-a7593941.html

http://www.sciencealert.com/breaking-news-nasa-is-making-a-huge-exoplanet-announcement-right-now

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/watch-nasas-new-findings-on-exo-planets–planets-that-orbit-stars-other-than-our-sun.html

 

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Tags: Announced, Discovery, earth, Earth-sized, Exoplanets, finding the next Earth, Habitable zone, Hubble telescope, Light years 40 million light years, nasa, Spitzer space telescope, TRAPPIST-1

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