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TRAPPIST-1 Planet May Be Boiling Its Own Atmosphere
Astronomers have been keenly interested in the TRAPPIST-1 system ever since the Spitzer Space Telescope identified an incredible seven Earth-like exoplanets in orbit of the star. They might not be ...
The evolution of the Trappist-1 planetary system
Now, with the help of the Spitzer Space Telescope ... then the third planet's orbital period will be 4.5 days. The Trappist-1 ...
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The Next ‘Giant Leap?’ We Can And Must Send People To The Moons Of Jupiter And Saturn By 2080 Say NASA Scientists
The system has been revealed through observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope as well as other ground-based observatories, and the ground-based TRAPPIST telescope for which it was named after.