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Seven rocky planets orbiting a nearby star called Trappist-1 are roughly the size of Earth. They all have the confitions for life and 3 of them could already have alien life.
Scientists say it will take a decade to find out if there is alien life on the planets or not.
Sources:
Star's seven Earth-sized worlds set record - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39034050
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/seven-planets-not-aliens-nasa-earth-space-science/
http://time.com/4677103/nasa-announcement-new-solar-system/?xid=homepage
Dramacian
Trappist system https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Trappist_Beer_2015-08-15.jpg/400px-Trappist_Beer_2015-08-15.jpg
Salmonmann
You don't understand how much I NEED to see complex alien life within my lifetime. PLEASE
Havok707
I hereby claim planet F for my own.
DystopianReality
Andromidous
It's Andromeda! Habitats 1-7 have been discovered pathfinder
L1NS4S4URUS
This is awesome! I only hope I live long enough where we a relocated to another planet.
Dalekcaan21
You won't have to wait very long. Nasa planning to put humans on mars in the 30s.
Zahnradfee
Yes, but not us. They'll use smart and strong or rich people for that.
bkkhk
How do you find out if there's life?
MrRayThe3rd
I have a hard time believing I can live on the first planet. I can't stand 26 C.. much less 80 C.
AlcoholicsGratuitous
If your mom goes to space, it'll be in search of Planet D.
leavemealonepleasethankyou
DiabolicPenguin
*bitch it might be
BoopityBap
bitch, it might be.
secretoaster
Girls could go to D, and guys can go to E. E looks cooler in temperature.
liseh
Petition to call one Pluto II so that Pluto can be a planet again
DaMerce
As Belgians, It should be our mission to go to that system, colonize some planets and start a Trappist brewery over there.
vliegtuig
I'd prefer to spend our taxes on this instead of our 6 governments.
Russoe
This is kinda misconstrued. Yes, they are planets in the habital zone. Yes they are near. No, we have no idea what it looks like.
Pyranamus
I know, this sort of loose hype frustrates me. Three of them could have liquid water on the surface, the rest could with right atmospheres.
ChuckKarma
This is barely a red dwarf, almost brown. Lots of these, none in the catalog past 500ly. Dark matter is ordinary. Sticking to MACHO theory!
Ttsanch
Are those earths flat too?
MainlyHereForTheSpellingAndPuns
*conditions
webrakefornobody
cazo
Fistouille
Hey I was born there! A good old trappist, yum.
Beverlyhillscopisonrightnow
Westmalle forever. Vlak bij mijn deur
vliegtuig
Chimay blanc is my favorite.
skwotingdog
Just 39 light years away, ill take my bicycle, see you guys when we get there. 100°C, better take some sun screen
shadowsdustwind
7 Earth sized planets. 3 that could have ice or water. No Earth-like planets period.
HoldYourDonkey
trina1978
The way he's "swimming" in the air! It's how I fly in my dreams.
DickwadMcDucking
Harambe made it to space.
SubtleNonExistence
"I'll take tea rapist for $500" - Sean Connery
Darthtador
This is gold lol
Boobdick
Everytime I read thappist my head says the rapist.
thesolamnus
yep
LeonQuin87
It's a kind of beer, since the star is originally discovered by a Belgian telescope called Trappist.
yesthisisdoggo
Think about psychotherapist. Makes it worse.
MrPink1
Analrapist
Rekkor
Whenever I hear someone say nearby star I feel the need to say "nearby" meaning millions of light years
Zahnradfee
In this case it's only 40 lys though. :) That's just across the street!
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
37 light years btw
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
With in the 100s, not millions, is usually the metric of near by.
Kayokak
Spoilers no life found.
RetroBlast
Considering the system is 39 light years away, I don't think we'll be able to tell...
KanyesSideFish
JohnDillingersPenis
Maybe not intelligent life. Could be plant life tho?
Dalekcaan21
Even bacteria is a huge finding.
Strostkovy
Considering how long it took them to find it I doubt it's too easy to tell.
PastaPriest
This is extremely misleading. We found 7 planets with masses similar to Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 37 ly away from us.
PastaPriest
Actually that's 39 ly away.
PastaPriest
Three of those planets are within the habitable zone of their star, meaning they COULD have liquid water on their surfaces.
PastaPriest
We know nothing about their atmospheres except that all but one of them is a rocky planet. In the search for planets with life on them,
PastaPriest
These three look like pretty good candidates. However, they are so close to their star that they very well might be tidally locked, which
PastaPriest
Would pretty much mean there's no way they could support life.
IvorJBiggun
Yeah any planet in Earth's position without a massive satellite is going to be a bit of a write-off.
MSNDRSTD
What if we are the extra terrestrials in the movies guys!?!?
Zahnradfee
We'd need much better spaceships for that.
Raenon
We're living in the prequel.
MSNDRSTD
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MSNDRSTD
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Raenon
Calm down there, Jar Jar.
Imstruttinmyasslikeidontcare
As a Belgian, Trappist is a type of beer to me, nothing else.
AwkwardKeming
As an American, Trappists are dang tasty.
CrimsonGhost107
Name them Enkel, Dubbel, Tripel, Quadrupel, and so on.
FrozenSteel
There's more famous belgian beer types, but there's also more planets... I absolutely second your motion there.
sputniknoodle
Apparently we made a telescope, which was put somewhere else because of crappy sight here, and we named that telescope trappist, 1/2
sputniknoodle
Which is an abbreviation but I forgot for what, and then they discovered the star and it's planets and so they called the star Trappist. 2/2
segat1
Thank you!
shittingmypants
And the German scientist (don't know his name) said he was pitching that they name the planets after Belgian beers!
Zahnradfee
What makes me sad is, that even if we discovered life on them tomorrow and sent a message, it will take 40 years for them to even receive it
Sauroctonus
That's assuming you're sending the message with light. Other methods will take considerably longer.
Zahnradfee
Certainly. But because of this nobody would consider sending a probe or even humans there. So it is reasonable to assume we'd try radio >
Zahnradfee
at first.
Zahnradfee
let alone answer. I will be long dead before we get a message back. :(
Pyranamus
Post overhypes probability of life on these planets, plus any life would likely be less advanced than us.
Zahnradfee
Why would it be less advanced than us? Red dwarves can become veeeeery old. How old is this star? Maybe it has been around longer than the >
Zahnradfee
sun? Where do I find the information about it?
Zahnradfee
And yes - I am aware chances are slim. Life is not very common. There was a string of rare events that lead to the earth being so friendly.
Pyranamus
All we know is this star is older than 500 mil. years. However, it's metallicity is much higher than the Sun's, which could mean it formed
Pyranamus
After the Sun did. As for intelligent life, it seems to me as though one of us would've already detected waves from the other at this point,