AN OCEAN OF WORLDSToday, scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of Earth-sized planets. If that’s not enough, the team asserts that the density measurements of the planets indicates that the six innermost are Earth-like rocky worlds.
https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/alien-worlds-life.pngCLICK IMAGE TO SEE FULL INFOGRAPHICAnd that’s just the beginning.
Three of the planets lie in the star’s habitable zone. If you aren’t familiar with the term, the habitable zone (also known as the “goldilocks zone”) is the region surrounding a star in which liquid water could theoretically exist. This means that all three of these alien worlds may have entire oceans of water, dramatically increasing the possibility of life. The other planets are less likely to host oceans of water, but the team states that liquid water is still a possibility on each of these worlds.
Summing the work, lead author Michaël Gillon notes that this solar system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water: “This is an amazing planetary system — not only because we have found so many planets, but because they are all surprisingly similar in size to the Earth!”
Co-author Amaury Triaud notes that the star in this system is an “ultracool dwarf,” and he clarifies what this means in relation to the planets: “The energy output from dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 is much weaker than that of our Sun. Planets would need to be in far closer orbits than we see in the Solar System if there is to be surface water. Fortunately, it seems that this kind of compact configuration is just what we see around TRAPPIST-1.”
REACHING ANOTHER WORLD****The system is just 40 light-years away. On a cosmic scale, that’s right next door. Of course, practically speaking, it would still take us hundreds of millions of years to get there with today’s technology – but again, it is notable in that the find speaks volumes about the potential for life-as-we-know-it beyond Earth.
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
YESSSS!!! Super interesting. I just read about that. Amazing haan.
"Finding a second earth is not just a matter of IF but WHEN" - NASA
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
This is sooo cool!!
More info here: NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star - NASA
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
Damn, what an exciting discovery. Imagine being on the front center of this research team, will keep up to date on this for sure.
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
alright NASA, very exciting blah blahdy blah. now can you build a rocket that will transport trump onto any of these 7 planets, and can we issue a travel ban afterwards?
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
alright NASA, very exciting blah blahdy blah. now can you build a rocket that will transport trump onto any of these 7 planets, and can we issue a travel ban afterwards?
Oh no, wut bad have the poor residents of those planets done?! Just drop him somewhere in space
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
Let's start moving there.....interesting news was about to post the same
Re: NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
The Nasa has revealed a great news that they have found a new solar system which contains 7 earth like planets but these planets are still far away from our planets which are round about 40 light years away.