NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 22 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star (https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1). 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 . . .
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star (https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1). 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 . . .