Scientists might just have found three planets capable of supporting life.
The trio of Earth-like exoplanets, discovered by European astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory inChile, are orbiting a dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1.
“This really is a paradigm shift with regards to the planet population and the path towards finding life in the Universe,” Emmanuël Jehin, a co-author of the new study, said.
RELATED:John Boyega fights aliens and the world ends at Syfy Movies with a View Theseworlds are similar to both Venus and Earth in size and temperature. Two of the planets have orbital periods of about 1.5 days and 2.4 days. The third planet has a less-welldetermined period in the range of 4.5 to 73 days. They are the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny star. There’s a distance of40 light-yearsbetween the dwarf star and Earth.
These Earth-like planets could harbor alien life
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