NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017
BALTIMORE, Feb. 22 -- NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute issued the following news release:
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 located in an area called the habitable zone, where liquid water is most likely to thrive on a rocky planet. The system sets a new record for the greatest number of habitable zone planets found outside our solar system. Any of these seven plan . . .
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 located in an area called the habitable zone, where liquid water is most likely to thrive on a rocky planet. The system sets a new record for the greatest number of habitable zone planets found outside our solar system. Any of these seven plan . . .