Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets
![This artist’s impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they are all roughly the same size as the Earth. Credit: ESO/N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/trappist-1.jpg)
Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1. According to the paper appearing today in the journal Nature, […]