--- title: Google Celebrates of Seven New Planets With Stellar Doodle description: An animated Doodle shows earth peering through a telescope to find seven friendly neighbors, just 235 trillion miles away canonical: https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/ author: Feliz Solomon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T03:11:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:20.231Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Discovery of Earth-Sized Planets og:description: Scientists believe the new solar system could be hospitable to life og:url: https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef55d98bf9db288c/6988bb780a4a225b229cd054/seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x1.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Discovery of Earth-Sized Planets twitter:description: Scientists believe the new solar system could be hospitable to life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef55d98bf9db288c/6988bb780a4a225b229cd054/seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x1.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Celebrates the Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets With This Stellar Doodle ## Video: NASA Announces a Single Star Is Home to At Least 7 Earthlike Planets [Watch (HLS stream): NASA Announces a Single Star Is Home to At Least 7 Earthlike Planets](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HGXg7PBa.m3u8) (1:28)  _Published 2017-02-22. NASA announced that a single star relatively close to Earth is home to no fewer than seven Earthlike planets. If you're looking for extraterrestrial life, there may be no place better._ by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Feb 23, 2017 3:11 AM UTC  Google by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Feb 23, 2017 3:11 AM UTC NASA has just announced the [discovery ](http://time.com/4677103/nasa-announcement-new-solar-system/?xid=homepage)of seven previously unknown earth-size planets orbiting a single dwarf star, which scientists believe could be the best place to look for life, and the Google team could hardly contain its excitement. Thursday’s [animated Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered) shows earth peering through a telescope to find its seven friendly neighbors, just 235 trillion miles away. Scientists said the newly discovered solar system, Trappist-1, is significant because three of its seven planets orbit in the “habitable zone”; their proximity to the system’s star suggests the right conditions for holding liquid water. The other four could also potentially be hospitable to living organisms. Researchers don’t yet know whether any of the planets are habitable, but they believe it’s promising. “This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,” NASA administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said in a [statement](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around). “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/"},"headline":"Google Celebrates the Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets With This Stellar Doodle","datePublished":"2017-02-23T03:11:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:20.231Z","description":"Scientists believe the new solar system could be hospitable to life","url":"https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef55d98bf9db288c/6988bb780a4a225b229cd054/seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x1.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef55d98bf9db288c/6988bb780a4a225b229cd054/seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x1.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"seven-earth-size-exoplanets-discovered-6423181526040576-2-hp2x","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4679842/google-doodle-trappist-1-nasa/","name":"Google Celebrates the Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets With This Stellar Doodle"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"NASA Announces a Single Star Is Home to At Least 7 Earthlike Planets","description":"NASA announced that a single star relatively close to Earth is home to no fewer than seven Earthlike planets. 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