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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## 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._ --- Jul 27, 2023 9:31 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [High School NASA Intern Discovers a Planet Orbiting Two Stars](/video/2sQkJc6X/) ### High School NASA Intern Discovers a Planet Orbiting Two Stars [New Earth-like Planets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Telescope](/video/fCApPc72/) ### New Earth-like Planets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Telescope [NASA's Kepler Discovers 'Habital Zone' Planet](/video/2q2RIAsT/) ### NASA's Kepler Discovers 'Habital Zone' Planet --- ## Transcript I'm excited to announce today, that Dr. Mikhail [ UNKNOWN ] and his team, have used our Spitzer space telescope to determine that are actually seven earth- sized planets orbiting the nearby Trappist- 1 star about 40 light years away What's more, as you can see in this illustration, is that three of these planets marked in green are in the habitable zone, where liquid water could pool on the surface. In fact with the right atmospheric conditions, there could be water on any of these planets. So for the first time we found as many terrestrial planets around a single star And that's the first time we've been able to measure in addition of both the masses and the radiai of these habitable earth sized planets. The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second earth It's not just a matter of if, but when. Now what is also exciting here about this system is that the planets are so close to each other. If you were on the surface of one of these planets, you would have A wonderful view on the other planets. We don't see them like we see Venus or Mars, like dots of light. But as you can see in the next illustration, you would see them really as you see the moon. You would see worlds which are very big. You could see the strictures on [ UNKNOWN ] walls. 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