One of the most interesting star systems to me is Trappist-1. Basically it's a ridiculously small red dwarf star (about the size of Jupiter) with 7 planets around it. The reason I find it fascinating isn't because the individual planets but because of the individual planets but because of the nature of the system itself. A lot has happened since early 2017 when it was first discovered, and although there are certainly problems with the possibility of life on each of the planets, the fact that most of them have even a slight chance of bearing life adds up to something very interesting. For the elephant in the room, Trappist-1 is a red dwarf, which is usually bad. The star's habitable zone is EXTREMELY close to it. This is because it's about as cool as stars get. About 2,000 degrees. The reason this is so bad is because the closer you are to a star, the more radiation you'll be exposed to. But this is pretty much the only place in the Trappist-1 system where Earth-lik...
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