TRAPPIST-1 is only eight percent the mass of our sun, making it a cooler and less luminous star. It’s home to seven Earth-size planets, three of which orbit in their star’s habitable zone—the range of distances from a star where ...
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Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars
An international team of astronomers, led by Nicolas Laporte of University College London, has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe A2744_YD4, the earliest and most remote galaxy the array has ever seen, Joinfo.com reports with reference to NASA. They ...
Read More »Breaking News: NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water – key to life as we know it – under ...
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