Trappist-1 Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:28:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Trappist-1 Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 NASA Discovery: 7 Earth-Sized Planets https://teachingkidsnews.com/2017/02/26/nasa-discovery-7-earth-sized-planets/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:28:29 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16046 Scientists from NASA announced on February 22 that they have discovered seven planets orbiting a nearby star. The planets are all about the same size as Earth, and three of them are in what scientists call the “habitable zone.”

(The habitable zone is the area of space around a star where a planet is most likely to have liquid water on its surface. Scientists believe water is necessary for anything to live on a planet.)

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