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Far into space, amongst the darkest Sea<\/p>\n

New planets sit like marbles in a row.<\/p>\n

We turn our eyes to find out what might be<\/p>\n

And search for patterns in their ether\u2019s flow;<\/p>\n

Then try to see what else might lie below.<\/p>\n

And as we probe how life\u2019s rich web was spun,<\/p>\n

Do they look back towards our distant sun?<\/p>\n

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This artist’s concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances (Photo Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a rhyme royal<\/a>, inspired by recent research<\/a> that has discovered seven Earth-sized planets orbiting around a single star.<\/p>\n

Researchers used NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a> to make observations of the star and its exoplanets (planets which orbit a star outside our solar system) in a region of space within the Aquarius constellation, approximately forty-lightyears from Earth. This newly discovered system is called TRAPPIST-1, in honour of The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST<\/a>) in Chile, which was used to make some of the measurements during the discovery process.\u00a0Three of the TRAPPIST-1 planets lie within a region called the Habitable Zone<\/em>, an area around a star in which there is likely to be rocky planets with liquid water that could potentially sustain life (i.e. the planets are neither too far nor too close to the star).<\/p>\n

These newly discovered planets are also very close to each other. So much so that if a person were to stand on one of the planet\u2019s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see clouds on the other planets. These observations represent a significant step forward in finding habitable environments elsewhere in the Universe, and further observations of the TRAPPIST-1 system are sure to reveal yet more secrets.<\/p>\n

An audio version of the poem can be heard here<\/a>. \u00ad\u00ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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