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1 Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

2 NASA discovery (22th February 2017):
Detection  of a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away  TRAPPIST–South,  NASA Spitzer Space Telescope,  Very Large Telescope  At least the inner six planets are comparable in both size and temperature to the Earth (rocky). The host star: 8% the mass of the Sun (a bit larger than Jupiter)

3 Orbital properties:

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5 Habitable zone: All seven planets discovered in the system could potentially have liquid water on their surfaces TRAPPIST-1b, c and d, are probably too hot to support liquid water

6 Transit method for detecting exoplanets:

7 TTV: Transit-Timming variation

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