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\nThe search for life beyond our solar system has taken an exciting turn, after a Belgian-led team reported finding planets with the potential to host life. Fox News reports that a team of Belgian astronomers have discovered three new...\nThe search for life beyond our solar system has taken an exciting turn, after a Belgian-led team reported finding planets with the potential to host life. Fox News reports that a team of Belgian astronomers have discovered three new planets in the Aquarius constellation using the Trappist telescope at the La Silia Observatory in Chile. The planets are 40 light years away and similar in size and temperature to Earth. They orbit an ultracool dwarf star, named Trappist-1 after the telescope that discovered it. Trappist-1 is a dim, red star about a tenth the size of our Sun, and only slightly bigger than Jupiter. With a temperature of less than 2,700 Kelvin, it's also only half as hot as our sun.\n
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2016
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planet, exoplanet, orbit, earth, aquarius constellation, sun, dwarf star, planet search, trappist-1, solar system, new planet, hunt for new planets, days, receive
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