NASA announces seven Earth-size planets around TRAPPIST-1

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NASA and an international team announced seven Earth-size planets orbiting the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, about 40 light-years away, three of them in the zone where liquid water could exist. The find, led by the Spitzer telescope, was published in Nature.

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  1. OfficialNASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star (opens in a new tab)NASA / 2017-02-22

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