SETI Institute: Stellar systems with as many as 8 planets, like ours, are rare in the galaxy. This is why the discovery of 7 rocky exoplanets around the dwarf star, Trappist-1, has gotten planetary scientists so excited. Even further, three of the planets in the Trappist-1 system are believed to be in the "habitable zone" for life: close enough to their star to melt ice but not so close that all the water evaporates. In other words, these planets might have liquid water at their surfaces.
SETI Institute: Stellar systems with as many as 8 planets, like ours, are rare in the galaxy. This is why the discovery of 7 rocky exoplanets around the dwarf star, Trappist-1, has gotten planetary scientists so excited. Even further, three of the planets in the Trappist-1 system are believed to be in the "habitable zone" for life: close enough to their star to melt ice but not so close that all the water evaporates. In other words, these planets might have liquid water at their surfaces.
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