Posted on Feb 1, 2023

APOD: 2023 February 1 – The Seventh World of Trappist 1

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Good evening, Rallypoint, and welcome to the February 1st edition of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "The Seventh World of Trappist 1." Sounds like the title of a good sci-fi adventure, doesn't it? Today's APOD looks like a book cover too. 'TRAPPIST' stands for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope. There are two of them: TRAPPIST North is located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and TRAPPIST South is located at the La Salla Obervatory in Chilé. A dwarf star (about the size of Jupiter) was discovered in 1999, and was given unwieldly name 2MASS J23 [login to see] 285 (because it was spotted with the Two Micron All-Sky Survey). Enter the Trappists.

Since 1999, and using the TRAPPIST telescopes, scientists have discovered a total of seven planets orbiting 2MASS J23 [login to see] 285. These planets are only 40 light years from Earth. To acknowledge their follow-on work, 2MASS J23 [login to see] 285 is now known as Trappist 1. I wonder what new stories will be written.

APOD: 2023 February 1 – The Seventh World of Trappist 1

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Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend and brother-in-Christ Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the Tuesday, February 1, 2023 Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): The Seventh World of Trappist 1

Image: The Seventh World of Trappist-1; Illustration Credit & Copyright: Michael Carroll

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APOD "Explanation: Seven worlds orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. A mere 40 light-years away, many of the exoplanets were discovered in 2016 using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and later confirmed with telescope including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely all rocky and similar in size to Earth, and so compose one of the largest treasure troves of terrestrial planets ever detected around a single star. Because they orbit very close to their faint, tiny star they could also have regions where surface temperatures allow for the presence of ice or even liquid water, a key ingredient for life. Their tantalizing proximity to Earth makes them prime candidates for future telescopic explorations of the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets. All seven exoplanets appear in the featured illustration, which imagines a view from the most distant known world of this system, TRAPPIST-1h, as having a rocky landscape covered in ice. Meanwhile, in the imagined background, one of the system's inner planets crosses in front of the dim, orange, nearly Jupiter-sized parent star."

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