22-02-2017 20:12 via denver.cbslocal.com

Record 7 New Earth-Sized Planets Discovered Around Single Star

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CBS4/AP) – NASA announced that, for the first time, astronomers discovered seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star.
Each of these new worlds, they say, could hold life.
NASA and a Belgian-led research team made the announcement Wednesday on their website and on Facebook:The cluster of planets is 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, circling around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1, which is barely the size of Jupiter.New record! We’ve fou
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