Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education
Subject
Space Science, Stars, Universe
Type
Posters
Located 40 light-years from Earth, seven Earth-sized planets orbit the TRAPPIST-1 star. What would it be like to vacation in that planetary system? Download a travel poster of TRAPPIST-1e, the fourth planet from the star, to imagine a holiday of the future. This planet is in the star’s habitable zone and could have liquid water. The poster invites you to “Take a planet-hopping excursion through the TRAPPIST-1 system.” The star system was revealed by the TRansiting Planets and PlanetIsmals Small Telescope, or TRAPPIST, and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet Poster
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