NASA Finds Record Breaking Group of Habitable Planets

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Last year only three planets had been identified around the star named TRAPPIST-1 but NASA just announced that with the Spitzer, an Infrared Space Telescope an additional 5 were just discovered in this solar system. This sets the record for most Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, with all having the possibility of containing liquid water with **3 having a higher chance of this being in the "Goldilocks zone" of conditions.

All of these seven planets could have liquid water – key to life as we know it – under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
source: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around

"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of the paper and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It is also the best target yet for studying the atmospheres of potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds."
source: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around/