Are aliens living just 40 light-years away? Astronomers 'hit the jackpot' by finding THREE Earth-sized habitable worlds bathed in 'eerie red light' around a nearby star (2)
The international team of astronomers that found the planets said they are orbiting an ultracool brown dwarf star about one-eighth the size of our sun called 2MASS J23062928-0502285, also known as Trappist-1. This artist's impression shows how the star looks from the surface of one of the newly-found planets