Doesn't 7 earth sized planets orbiting a star completely

No, it's a tiny star. Think of it more like a very massive gas giant with satellites.

Trappist is a horrible name. What's wrong with NASA?

>>8696811
acronym for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope–South

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>>8696820
What if it has life?
Life on Trap-rapist.

>>8696828
Would we call them rapists?

>>8696811
>NASA
shit bait Americuck

>>8696828
T raptist
This has to be on porpoise

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>The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope–South (TRAPPIST) is a Belgian optic robotic telescope, situated high in the Chilean mountains at ESO's La Silla Observatory, which came online in 2010. It is named in homage to the Trappist religious order, who are known for brewing the Trappist beer.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST

That's what happens when subhuman engineers are in charge of naming.

>>8696668
No.

That system was created by aliens. Those are vacation planets.

>>8696811
>Trap·pist
>Relating to a branch of the Cistercian order of monks founded in 1664 and noted for an austere rule that includes remaining silent for much of the time.

it's a meme, it's meant to suggest that they have been quiet to us

such a shitty name though, jesus christ

Brainlet here,

Since planet G looks a bit green does that mean there could be plant-like organisms there?

>>8696668
>>8696857

It's a fine name you clueless autists. I bet you didn't even know what a Trappist beer was until just now.

>>8696877
i thought they had no idea on what any of them looked like

artistic license etc

>>8696879
>huurrrr im an expert in some random drug

they should name the next planets Purple Haze Kush hey degenerate

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>>8696888
here's my artistic vision

>>8696879
>lmaoooo u don know dis shitty beer??
>AUTIST xdxdxdD

>>8696879
I thought of beer an the music genre first then traps second.

>>8696902
might wanna put a watermark on that lad

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HERPES-SAT ON THE LAUNCH PAD.

>>8696668

It's a big jupiter with bigger moons.

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this is a pretty cool impression of the system

>>8696970
>mfw knowing no human now alive will ever get there.
Probably no human in centuries.

>>8696877
We don't know what they look like.

All we can see is the planets moving in front of their sun as dots

>>8696979
we can leave notes behind so our future brethren can deliver them

>>8696857
Wait , chile named the planets?
If its that , fuck , my country like traps now....
I wanna leave , i dont like traps

>Budweiser autistic screeching for not being the name of the newest science meme that will be forgotten in less than 6 days

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>>8696811

it's based on the population

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>>8696970

more accurate version

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>>8697029

New high res just in from NASA (C) (TM) (R)

>>8696857
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECULOOS
>SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars)

This sounds fukken rad

>>8697240
Speculoos is utterly rancid though

But what if b and c collide with each other due to their orbits?

The amount of normies talking about hurrr we should go there durrr generation ships is actually annoying the hell out of me. For crying out loud we don't even know if the planets ARE habitable. Earth like=\= habitable

>>8697279
the amount of idiots assuming >>8696668 is how the planets look like
just go on any other board that's discussing this, people just talk random bullshit they don't even know about

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>>8697279
More reason to send the normies there.

>>8696980
the fuck are those pics then

>>8696668
No, it destroys some abandoned ones that were already destroyed, I guess.

>>8697514
Artistic conceptions, based on a technical process known as "making shit up."

Is it true that they have shared atmospheres?

>>8697240
Sounds like something Reddit would come up with.

>>8697570
>Sounds like something Reddit would come up with.
Planet McPlanet.
Telescope M'Scope.

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>>8697279
That won't stop the Mormons.

There's no way these planets started off so close to that sun.
They were either drawn in or put there.

>>8697578
Your vague hunch has convinced me.

>>8697570
Have you not noticed yet that Scientists are fucking shitheads? There's a pikachu gene, and a sonic gene. We have Super Quantum Interference Device, aka SQUID.

>ywn never get to watch the other planets of this system race across the sky as you search for extremeophile life within planetary caverns.

Someone please figure out an alcubierre drive

>>8697618
Or stasis. Or rejuvenation. Anything really.

>>8697279
Not a generation ship but some unmanned probes on flybys wouldn't be such a bad idea, granted it would take the better part of three centuries for them to reach their destinations

>>8696828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRw1ERj2Gc

>>8696811
With 300 Billion stars in the Milky way alone, I guess all the other names were taken.

So is the whole possibly habitable thing just a big meme?

>>8698970
'possibly habitable' just means two things: 1, it is a rocky planet. 2, it is within the estimated zone that Earth life could survive in.

That's it.

>>8696902
>here's my autistic vision
FTFY

>>8698970
Probably more habitable than Mars.
It's not so much the fact that these planets are there in the "Goldilocks zone" but the fact that "Goldilocks" planets seem to be dime a dozen.
This is pretty much our galactic neighborhood and there they are.

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>>8696979
Kek lad, look up SENS and donate... if you want to live long enough to go to other planets... hehe....

>>8696668
How would it?

The current models suggest that the majority of stars have planets around them... Nothing to say one might have more rocks than gas giants. Hell, there might even be a Firefly style solar system out there, even it'd be a fluke, it wouldn't wreck physics.

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>>8699267
>fergot pic

Somewhere out there a sun-like star has 7 earth sized planets orbiting it..

>>8697279

>omg lol so fun lmao planets lets send rockets ^_^ like this pls
>Very well nasa has presented a 1 billion starter plan to test possible application of technologies that w-..
>omg lol nasa sucks lmao wasting money on rockets ~_~ like this pls

What are the chances of any of the Trappist-1 planets colliding with eachother before the star dies?

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>>8697052
even higher res

>500 million years old

So no fucking chance of life then.

>>8697530
Are you fucking retarded?

Maybe an intelligent civilisation can evolve within 500 million years?

>>8699714
>no gas giants to swallow asteroid bombardement
very bad!

>>8697575
Telescope 360noscope

>>8696873
Believe it or not they make excellent beer at a place in Mass

>>8700029
Basic gestalt on trappist beer
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-55-the-best-beer-in-the-world/

>>8696811
>thinking this was a NASA discovery

>>8696668
>established Astrophysical theories on solar system formations?
And what would those be?

If anything, the past 20 years of exoplanet observations have shown planet formation is an extremely messy process.

>>8696668
...no, burt it totally fucks with Bode's Law.

>>8696828
>>8696831
>>8696847

The guys giving free anal probes are from that system.

>KEK

>>8696668
Planet formation is random, there use to be 20 planets in our solar system originally.

>>8698970
If a planet has a liquid medium with low density like water then it is very possible for some type of chemical code or RNA to have formed in its liquid surface over the eons overtime becoming more structure advanced life like us. Life doesnt need water, water is just a component for EARTH LIFE.

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>>8696811
It's a great name. I hope NASA celebrated by drinking Orval or some shit.

>>8700459
bode's law has been bullshit for like at least 200 years now

>>8699691
The earth is 4.3 billion....

Bro, earth is flat. That NASA stuff is all CGI.

>>8696748
It's Jupiter after the monoliths

>>8696811
It should be Snow White and Doc, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, and Grumpy

>>8696811

>howbout
>no

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>>8696857
Trappist beer is pretty good.
But I wouldn't expect americucks to have any taste anyway.

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>>8696828
we call them traps

>>8701225
>red star
>call it snow white

also, there might be more than 7 planets there

>>8696811
>Belgian telescope
>Most Trappist beers are Belgian
it's a cool name, you're probably a yank