Seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away...

The Universe has more wonders than your imagination can conjure...

From the news at ESO website:

"Astronomers using the TRAPPIST–South telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 [2]. All the planets, labelled TRAPPIST-1b, c, d, e, f, g and h in order of increasing distance from their parent star, have sizes similar to Earth [3]."

Please see full article @ http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1706/

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