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According to NASA, a neighboring star has 7 Earth-like planets in its orbit

• Seven Earth-like planets have been found orbiting a sun not too far — in space terms, at least — from our own.
• NASA announced
  Wednesday that the planets resemble Earth in composition and spacing
  from their star, which means their conditions might be favorable to
  liquid water and life, Time reported.
• “The planets form a very compact system,” Michaël Gillon of
  Belgium’s University of Liège, said in a
  teleconference, according to Time. “They are very close to their
  star and are reminiscent of the system of moons that orbit Jupiter. They
  could have liquid water and life.”
• Astronomers studied the star, Trappist-1 — which, at 39
  light years away from Earth, is considered a relative neighbor — for six
  years, using telescopes located all over the world, plus the Spitzer
  Space Telescope. Read more (2/22/17 2:04 PM)

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