July 22, 2016

Artistic concept of two exoplanets transiting in front of the TRAPPIST-1 star (Image NASA/ESA/STScI/J. de Wit (MIT))

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a research on two exoplanets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. A group of researchers led by Julien de Wit of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts used the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to better examine two of the three exoplanets whose discovery was announced in May 2016.