Trappist
In 2016, Belgian scientists announced that they had found three planets around the star TRAPPIST-1. Subsequent observations revealed another 4 planets, where three of them were in the habitable zone. Scientists have not even looked at TRAPPIST-1, because when the new space telescope James Webb is launched soon, astronomers around the world will battle for observation time to learn even more about this distant solar system.
One of them is the Danish astronomer and professor at DTU Space in Lyngby, Professor Lars Buchhave. The next little hour we travel with the Professor and Science Stories' man on the case, Morten Remar, 40 light years out into space against the constellation Aquarius, where the fascinating solar system is located.
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