February 22, 2017
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Thrilling discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star ? #Trappist1
Thrilling discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star ? #Trappist1
From the fifth planet, considered the most habitable, the salmon-pink star would loom 10 times larger than the sun in our sky. The other planets would soar overhead as their orbits required, appearing up to twice the size of the moon as seen from Earth. “It would be a beautiful show,” said Amaury Triaud at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University.