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NASA creates gorgeous travel posters for TRAPPIST-1 planets

These Earth-like planets could support alien life.

 

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

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Posted on Feb 23, 2017   Updated on May 24, 2021, 10:55 pm CDT

By announcing the discovery of potentially habitable planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, NASA gave us some of the coolest news of 2017.

In a press conference on Wednesday, NASA shared its discovery of seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are in the “habitable zone” of orbit around the TRAPPIST-1 star.

To celebrate this exciting discovery, NASA commissioned a series of very snazzy posters illustrating the similarities with our own solar system and advertising TRAPPIST-1 as a travel destination.

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You can check out all the posters in a gallery at the TRAPPIST-1 website, where you can learn more about the system and NASA’s plans to continue studying these planets.

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*First Published: Feb 23, 2017, 7:26 am CST