NASA Announces Discovery Of 7 Other 'Earths'

<div><p>For hundreds of years, we have long debated the possibility of life on other planets. </p><p>For the first time ever, NASA has made a major, breakthrough discovery that could bring us one step closer to encountering alien life. </p><p>Seven Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a nearby star and a Belgian-led research team believes that one of them could hold life. </p><div><figure><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02.jpg" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FEB22_NASA_POST02.jpg" target="_blank">NASA/JPL-Caltech</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>According to <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/society/science/scientists-discover-seven-earth-sized-planets-that-could-hold-life/">NASA</a>, the planets are as close as four light-years away and one of them could possibly host life!</p><p>They were spotted circling a closely around a small star called TRAPPIST-1. Six &nbsp;of the planets might have the right temperature for liquid water, which means at least one of them might be life-sustaining. </p><div><figure><a href="https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xTyHyJpWRJAONy9-v00tLD1Tec0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8026265/PIA21423.jpg" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/PIA21423.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/PIA21423_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/PIA21423_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/PIA21423_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center">An artist's rendering of what it might look like from the surface of one Earth-like planet: TRAPPIST-1f<cite><a href="https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xTyHyJpWRJAONy9-v00tLD1Tec0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8026265/PIA21423.jpg" target="_blank">Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Although it will still take some time to confirm the components of each planet's atmosphere, the possibility of seven other Earths has got everyone talking:</p><p>"It's remarkable that you could see another world right there," Amaury Triaud, an exoplanet fellow at the Kavli Institute at the University of Cambridge and a study author, tells <em><em><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14674088/7-planet-solar-system-discovered-conditions-for-life-water-nature-nasa">The Verge</a></em></em>.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p><strong>What do you think? Is this good news? Like &amp; Share!</strong></p></div>