UNSPECIFIED: In this NASA digital illustration handout released on February 22, 2017, all seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 are shown and could fit inside the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system. TRAPPIST-1 also is only a fraction of the size of our sun; it isn’t much larger than Jupiter. The TRAPPIST-1 system’s proportions look more like Jupiter and its moons than those of our solar system. The system has been revealed through observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based TRAPPIST telescope, for which it was named after. The seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 are all Earth-sized and terrestrial, according to research published in 2017 in the journal Nature. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf star in the constellation Aquarius, and its planets orbit very close to it. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images)
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