NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
Portal origin URL: NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star Portal origin nid: 397579Published: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 12:58Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This illustration shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1f, one of the newly discovered planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Scientists using the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes have discovered that there are seven Earth-size planets in the system. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech View this and many more images, as well as several videos, in an extensive multimedia gallery highlighting this discovery. 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. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system....