Discovery of new planets is a lottery win for astronomers looking for alien life
by Stuart Clark from on (#2DJZ3)
The seven planets discovered around the dwarf star Trappist-1 confirm that the coming decade will belong to the study of exoplanets
Seven potentially habitable planets found around a single star - this latest exoplanet discovery is just mind blowing. As a fellow journalist just said to me, "It's like Battlestar Galactica come true!" She was referring to the science fiction series' 12 human colonies that were supposedly on planets circling the same star.
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