NASA Announces Discovery of 7 Earth-Sized Planets in Nearby Star System

‘The big news is that around a very nearby, cold, small star, we found seven rocky Earth-sized planets, all of which could potentially have liquid water’

NASA Announces Discovery Of 7 Earth-Sized Planets In Nearby Star System (RealClearPolitics)

NASA announced Wednesday that they have discovered a nearby star sytsem with seven Earth-sized planets, some of which could potentially have liquid water. The system is called "TRAPPIST-1" after the Belgian-operated telescope in Chile that discovered it. 

"The big news is that around a very nearby, cold, small star, we found seven rocky Earth-sized planets, all of which could potentially have liquid water," a NASA spokesman said in this video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

NASA's James Webb Telescope, planned to launch in 2018, could provide new details about the planets. 

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