Dr.
Ewa Niemczura
(University of Wrocław)
12/01/2018, 12:00
Almost a year ago Michaël Gillon and collaborators (Nature 542,456–460; 2017) announced the discovery of a system of seven terrestrial planets around the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. For many reasons this is an extremely interesting system. All the planets are tightly packed together and in orbital resonance. They have radii, masses, and densities close to those of the Earth, which means,...
