Sunday, 26 February 2017

TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian Moons

TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian Moons

All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system. In fact, they would have room to spare. TRAPPIST-1 also is only a fraction of the size of our sun; it isn't much larger than Jupiter. So the TRAPPIST-1 system's proportions look more like Jupiter and its moons than those of our solar system. The seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 are all Earth-sized and...
Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21428?source=Snapzu

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