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Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are Earth-sized planets in a spectacular planetary system outside our own. These seven rocky worlds huddle around their small, dim, red star, like a family around a campfire. Any of them could harbor liquid water, but the planet shown here, fourth from the TRAPPIST-1 star, is in the habitable zone, the area around the star where liquid water is most likely to be detected. This system was revealed by the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The planets are also excellent targets for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Take a planet-hopping excursion through the TRAPPIST-1 system.

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Visit TRAPPIST-1e! NASA Travel Poster Advertises Exoplanet Discovery

If you're looking for an ultra-long vacation to an ultra-small dwarf star, a new NASA travel poster has just the trip for you: a star trek to TRAPPIST-1e!

NASA unveiled the retro TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet travel poster Wednesday (Feb. 22) to commemorate the discovery of seven Earth-size alien worlds around the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The image is the latest in a series of  awesome NASA space travel posters to promote exoplanet science.

"Planet Hop From TRAPPIST-1e," the NASA poster proclaims, showing what appears to be two children marveling at a view of  the system's six other planet  in the sky. "Voted Best 'Hab Zone' Vacation Within 12 Parsecs of Earth." TRAPPIST-1e is one of three planets (the others are TRAPPIST-1f and TRAPPIST-1g) in the TRAPPIST-1 system located within the cool dwarf star's habitable zone, that "Goldilocks zone" where liquid water could exist. [ How Long Would It Take to Fly to TRAPPIST-1? ]

The system is just over 39 light-years from Earth. That's about 235 trillion miles, or as you've read above, about 12 parsecs.

Twelve parsecs! Han Solo's Millennium Falcon from "Star Wars" could easily make the trip. After all, it's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. 

You can download in high-resolution here — even a print-out poster size! — from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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NASA creates gorgeous travel posters for TRAPPIST-1 planets

These earth-like planets could support alien life..

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Posted on Feb 23, 2017   Updated on May 24, 2021, 10:55 pm CDT

By announcing the discovery of potentially habitable planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, NASA gave us some of the coolest news of 2017.

In a press conference on Wednesday, NASA shared its discovery of seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are in the “habitable zone” of orbit around the TRAPPIST-1 star.

To celebrate this exciting discovery, NASA commissioned a series of very snazzy posters illustrating the similarities with our own solar system and advertising TRAPPIST-1 as a travel destination.

You can check out all the posters in a gallery at the TRAPPIST-1 website , where you can learn more about the system and NASA’s plans to continue studying these planets.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Follow her on Twitter: @Hello_Tailor

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10 Things: All About TRAPPIST-1

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-size planets closely orbit a faint star called TRAPPIST-1. We now know more about this system than any other beyond our own.

1–first we thought there were three.

The star we today call TRAPPIST-1 was first discovered in 1999 by astronomer John Gizis and colleagues. At that time, the ultra-cool dwarf star got the unwieldy name 2MASS J23062928-0502285, because it was spotted with the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS).

Then, in May 2016, scientists announced they had found three planets around this star using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. In honor of this telescope, scientists began referring to the star as TRAPPIST-1.

› Read More: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/promising-worlds-found-around-nearby-ultra-cool-dwarf-star

2…then we looked at the atmospheres of two

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to find that TRAPPIST-1b and c were unlikely to have hydrogen-dominated atmospheres like those we see in gas giants. This strengthens the case that these planets could be rocky and possibly hold onto water. This result was published in July 2016.

› Read More: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-telescope-makes-first-atmospheric-study-of-earth-sized-exoplanets

3…but actually there were seven.

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes discovered that the system has seven planets. Three of these planets are in the theoretical "habitable zone," the area around a star where rocky planets are most likely to hold liquid water. This landmark finding was announced on Feb. 22, 2017.

› Read More: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1419/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around-single-star/

4–The farthest one could be icy

Researchers determined that the farthest planet from the star, TRAPPIST-1h, orbits its star every 19 days, using NASA's Kepler space telescope. This is still much shorter than the orbit of Mercury, which goes around the Sun every 88 days. But because TRAPPIST-1 is so faint – it outputs only .05 percent the amount of energy of the Sun – planet h receives a lot less heat than Mercury, and may be covered in ice.

› Read More: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/astronomers-confirm-orbital-details-of-trappist1-least-understood-planet

5–They are likely older than our solar system

The age of a star is important for understanding whether planets around it could host life. Scientists wrote in an August 2017 study that TRAPPIST-1 is between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years old. This is up to twice as old as our own solar system, which formed some 4.5 billion years ago.

› Read More: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/trappist-1-is-older-than-our-solar-system

6–They are mostly made of rock

Throughout 2017, scientists worked on creating sophisticated computer models to simulate the planets based on available information. They used additional data from Spitzer, Kepler and ground-based telescopes to come up with the best-yet estimates for the planets' densities. The results are consistent with all of the TRAPPIST-1 planets being mostly made of rock. This result was published in February 2018.

› Read More: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-022

7…and that is reinforced by looking for atmospheres.

Continued observations with Hubble showed that TRAPPIST-1 d, e and f are unlikely to have puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, as of February 2018. Scientists will need more data to determine how much hydrogen TRAPPIST-1g has.

› Read More: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-07

8–The planets may appear like moons in each other's skies

The TRAPPIST-1 planets are so close together that if you could stand on the surface of one, you might see some of the neighboring planets hovering above. This idea was inspirational for the TRAPPIST-1 travel poster.

You can download your own here: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1/#Poster

9–We imagine them based on real data

While we can't take photos of the planets themselves, visualization specialists at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, work with scientists and their data to come up with illustrations of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Read more about Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle here:

› Read More: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6868

10–Learn more in our Facebook Live

On Feb. 22 at 1:30 PT, we'll have a Facebook Live talking about illustrating the TRAPPIST-1 planets, how Spitzer works and more. Follow NASA PlanetQuest to learn more this week

› Read More: https://www.facebook.com/NasaPlanetquest/

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Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are Earth-sized planets in a spectacular planetary system outside our own. These seven rocky worlds huddle around their small, dim, red star, like a family around a campfire. Any of them could harbor liquid water, but the planet shown here, fourth from the TRAPPIST-1 star, is in the habitable zone, the area around the star where liquid water is most likely to be detected. This system was revealed by the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The planets are also excellent targets for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Take a planet-hopping excursion through the TRAPPIST-1 system.

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, on a mission to become NASA’s premier infrared light observatory. It offered astronomers an unprecedented infrared view of the universe, allowing us to peer into regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity. One of NASA’s Great Observatories, Spitzer discovered a ring of Saturn, studied some of the farthest galaxies, and identified two of the most distant supermassive black holes ever discovered, among other accomplishments in its 16 years of operation.

The study of exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – was not one of Spitzer’s original goals. But innovations during its mission improved Spitzer's precision and enabled it to become a critical tool for exoplanet work. Spitzer marked a new age in planetary science by being the first telescope to directly detect light from exoplanets. It has played a key scientific role in everything from planets larger than Jupiter to small, rocky worlds that may be similar to Earth.

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