Search for extraterrestrial transmissions in promising star system TRAPPIST-1 fails

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Search for extraterrestrial transmissions in promising star system TRAPPIST-1 fails

Artist’s impression of the seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system

NASA

A search for aliens communicating between planets in one of the most promising systems for searching for life has ended in failure.

Discovered in 2017, TRAPPIST-1 is a system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star much dimmer than our sun, about 40 light years away. The planets all orbit closer than Mercury to our sun and pass in front of their star from our perspective. Three of the planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone, where liquid water can exist, and they…

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