🪐 The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1c, located about 40 light-years away, is a rocky world baked by its star to temperatures hot enough to melt lead—around 230°C—despite being only slightly larger than Earth. With a tight orbit of just 2.4 days, TRAPPIST-1c endures constant stellar radiation, making its surface a realm of extreme heat and intense space weather unlike anything found on our planet. ✨
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🪐 In 2017, astronomers discovered a group of odd, repeating radio signals coming from TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star with seven Earth-sized exoplanets just 39 light-years away. While these signals turned out to be natural phenomena related to the star's magnetic activity, TRAPPIST-1 remains one of the most intriguing targets in the search for alien life because several of its planets orbit in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. ✨
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🪐 The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b, one of seven planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 about 41 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere. Webb’s sensitive instruments showed that the planet’s dayside is hotter than expected if it had an atmospheric blanket, suggesting its surface is bare rock—shaping new ideas about the harsh conditions on close-orbiting worlds around small stars. ✨
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🪐 In the TRAPPIST-1 system, about 40 light-years away, seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbit a cool, dim star, and at least three of them lie in the star’s “habitable zone”—the region where temperatures might allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces. This cluster of small worlds makes TRAPPIST-1 one of the top real candidates in the search for places where life could exist beyond our solar system. ✨
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