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Forums - General Discussion - NASA has found 7 earth sized planets around a single star outside our solar system!

ninjapirate42 on 22 February 2017

Big news! NASA is in the middle of announcing it

Video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bnKFaAS30X8 

 



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jason1637 on 22 February 2017

Wow that's great news.



Ganoncrotch on 22 February 2017

Pretty cool that they're just 40 light years away, still means that the majority of this forums users (myself included) cannot be seen from this planet even if they had magnification great enough for the feat to be possible, they would just be watching the Earth before we were born.



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ninjapirate42 on 22 February 2017

3 are in a habitable zone too which is fantastic to hear!



GuyDuke on 22 February 2017

You should add the video to the OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bnKFaAS30X8 



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ninjapirate42 on 22 February 2017
guiduc said:

You should add the video to the OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bnKFaAS30X8 

Done!



super_etecoon on 22 February 2017
BraLoD said:
Aliens or GTFO.

Huh?



super_etecoon on 22 February 2017
BraLoD said:
super_etecoon said:

Huh?

My alien overlords from Planet 3 told me to say that.

But can you translate what they meant into English?



GuyDuke on 22 February 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=o2MgG6KhO1E 360 view on the surface of TRAPPIST-1 Planet D.



bonzobanana on 22 February 2017
Ganoncrotch said:
Pretty cool that they're just 40 light years away, still means that the majority of this forums users (myself included) cannot be seen from this planet even if they had magnification great enough for the feat to be possible, they would just be watching the Earth before we were born.

For the same reason if these 3 habitable zone planets all developed intelligent life and had some huge war  35 years ago destroying all 3 planets we won't know about it for another 5 years. Much of what we see as we look out to space is already gone in the time it has taken the light to reach us especially the stars of other galaxies and even the largest stars in our own galaxy which have relatively short existences compared to medium and small size stars.