Gadgetory

move over kepler systems there's a new darling star system in town okay so not exactly in the same town or even the same state relative to the size of the universe but closest NASA announced they discovered a system called Trappist one that has not one not two but three planets that fall into what they call the habitable zone that's when planets are in an area that isn't too hot or too cold and potentially have the ability to support life as we know it all seven known planets in the system are earth sized and they're also much closer to the star at the center Trappist one is that star and it's much smaller and cooler than our Sun so the three planets in the habitable zone would probably be visible in the same way we see our moon in the sky NASA even made a super-sweet travel poster with an idea of what that could look like Oh before you start packing your bags though there is a catch trapper one is 40 light-years away so if you were in a spaceship moving at the speed of a jet plane it would take you 44 million years to get there as for potential life on those planets scientists need more atmospheric data before they can determine if life is possible on Trappist 1 e 1f and 1g which they hope to get when larger telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope launches in late 2018 for more information check out C Netcom I'm ashley Esqueda and until I can be a robot living on Trappist one s be good humans