Questions tagged [trappist-1]
Questions regarding a red dwarf star with 7 planets orbiting it.
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When should we expect atmospheric info from the most promising planets for life, Trappist-1e?
It seems like other exoplanets in the Trappist-1 system have been studied by JWST but perhaps most promising planet for life, Trappist-1e, has yet to get studied or at least have any published news.
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Does Trappist-1 have a Periodic Configuration? [duplicate]
Trappist-1's planetary system is notable for having 7 planets in a resonance chain. I would think, since all the planets are in resonance, the system would have a repeating configuration that could be ...
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What data has JWST obtained of the Trappist-1 exoplanets and where is it? [duplicate]
I have been long waiting spectral data regarding the exoplanets around Trappist-1 and their atmospheres, and I was also long awaiting JWST's launch to get to know more about the system. However, now ...
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If all the Trappist-1 planets are tidally locked, which ones may have temperate zones?
Since all the Trappist-1 planets have circular orbits, it is entirely likely that all them are tidally locked.
If so, which ones of the planets may have temperate zones either on the bright or dark ...
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Could a Trappist-like planetary system exist around a sun like ours?
So, a couple of years ago, the TRAPPIST sun was discovered to have 7 different earth-like planets orbiting it – three of them in the habitable zone. Nothing like this has ever been seen before, or ...
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Are the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system so close that inhabitants on one planet could see surface details on the other planets?
In a discussion below the Space Exploration question Are there any to-scale diagrams of the TRAPPIST-1 system I was invited to ask a question like this, so I have.
Question: Are the planets in the ...
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Are there any to-scale diagrams of the TRAPPIST-1 system?
Recommended to cross-post from SpaceEx: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/38397/are-there-any-to-scale-diagrams-of-the-trappist-1-system
I was recently told that the planets in TRAPPIST-1 are ...
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Are there any to-scale diagrams of the TRAPPIST-1 system [duplicate]
I was recently told that the planets in TRAPPIST-1 are close enough together that you can see them from each other, as visible, discernible planets "hanging in the sky". i.e. much like the moon.
I'm ...
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Is it possible for any of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system to have moons?
All of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are all orbiting very closely and are somewhat large. Would it be possible for at least one of the planets to have a stable moon in orbit around it? Or ...
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TRAPPIST 1 and planet statistics?
From what I understand, the TRAPPIST 1 system was discovered using the transiting method looking at 20 ultra-cool small stars. I'm not sure how many have been observed since this study.
What I wonder ...
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Is there a timeline for the naming of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds?
For the moment, the TRAPPIST-1 worlds are just known by their official designations, like "TRAPPIST-1a" etc. NASA made a casual tweet asking people what they would name the worlds, and there has been ...
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What would the tides on the Trappist-1 planets be like? [duplicate]
In the recent press conference about the planets orbiting around Trappist-1, one of the astronomers mentioned that the planets are close enough to each other that the tidal forces between planets are ...
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What would the view be list from TRAPPIST-1g, looking back towards TRAPPIST-1? [duplicate]
There's a lot of interest with the recent discovery of seven earth sized planets around TRAPPIST-1. I saw this poster, and the NASA video says that in the system you could see a lot of other planets ...
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How many things are wrong in this "artist view" of the TRAPPIST-1 system?
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that irks me. Of course its an artist's fantasy, but since it is on a NASA site, I see people considering it as scientifically accurate. So, beyond the two ...
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Trappist-1 planet albedo
Is the albedo of any of the Trappist-1 planets know? Is it high enough so if you are on the surface of one of the planets, you can see the others?
I looked up the distances from the star and size of ...
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