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Don't recall TRAPPIST-1 mentioned in any news but seems much effort has gone into studying this fly-speck.

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[–] teft 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anton Petrov has done a bunch of videos about TRAPPIST-1. PBS Spacetime has too. Both are on youtube if you want to learn more about the system.

[–] broton33 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] teft 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] broton33 5 points 4 months ago

Thank you. Now I know to take off that extra bit!

[–] A_A 2 points 4 months ago

Key point :
"Some planetary systems manage to keep their resonance patterns, and TRAPPIST-1 is one of those systems."