In 2016 and 2017, observations with numerous space- and ground-based telescopes, including the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) telescope at La Silla Observatory, led to the discovery two terrestrial planets in orbit around the star
Its planetary system was discovered by a team led by Michaël Gillon, a Belgian astronomer of the University of Liege, in 2016, during observations made from the La Silla Observatory, Chile, using the TRAPPIST telescope.
Research since then has confirmed the existence of at least seven planets in the system, with their orbits constrained by the Spitzer and Kepler telescopes.
The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planets is often incorrectly attributed to NASA, but in actuality the TRAPPIST project that led to their discovery involved funding from both NASA and the European Research Council of the European Union.
The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planets had a major impact, drawing widespread attention in major world newspapers, social media, streaming TV and websites. As of 2017, the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 led to the largest single-day web traffic to the NASA website.
This is beautiful. Got the source, OP? I could order a printed version of this.
Literally have this printed on art-quality poster, as well as a few others from that series of posters.
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A pretty cool poster made for a relatively unknown but important discovery of earth-like planets by a Belgian-lead project.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1 :
In 2016 and 2017, observations with numerous space- and ground-based telescopes, including the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) telescope at La Silla Observatory, led to the discovery two terrestrial planets in orbit around the star
Its planetary system was discovered by a team led by Michaël Gillon, a Belgian astronomer of the University of Liege, in 2016, during observations made from the La Silla Observatory, Chile, using the TRAPPIST telescope.
Research since then has confirmed the existence of at least seven planets in the system, with their orbits constrained by the Spitzer and Kepler telescopes.
The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planets is often incorrectly attributed to NASA, but in actuality the TRAPPIST project that led to their discovery involved funding from both NASA and the European Research Council of the European Union.
The discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planets had a major impact, drawing widespread attention in major world newspapers, social media, streaming TV and websites. As of 2017, the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 led to the largest single-day web traffic to the NASA website.
This is beautiful. Got the source, OP? I could order a printed version of this.
Literally have this printed on art-quality poster, as well as a few others from that series of posters.