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Smallest ever: Bus to stadium-sized asteroids spotted near Mars-Jupiter belt
They have used various telescopes to collect data on TRAPPIST-1 planets at different ... in the sense that they just cross your field of view and affect your data,” said Julien de Wit, MIT ...
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Seven Earth-sized planets orbit an alien star only 40 light-years away
Scientists have discovered that at least seven Earth-sized worlds circle the star TRAPPIST-1, a ultracool dwarf star only about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth. The planetary haul ...
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Here's the first real look at TRAPPIST-1, the star with 7 Earth-sized planets, in GIF form
Artist's illustration of a view from the surface of one of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Hey there, little star. A new set of images taken by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope shows ...