,1,Since the discovery of seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star, we’ve wanted to study them more closely. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will tell us more about them.
Three of the planets are in the habitable zone of the star, meaning they are at a distance that isn’t too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist. We expect preliminary results on each of the planets in 2023.
O TRAPPIST-1, O TRAPPIST-1
How lovely are thy planets
O TRAPPIST-1, O TRAPPIST-1
How lovely are thy planets
Seven worlds of Earthly size
Ready for Webb’s probing eyes
O TRAPPIST-1, O TRAPPIST-1
How lovely are thy planets
Three worlds in a habitable zone
We need to know if they are home
To anything, so far unknown
Webb will send its science home
Can’t wait to learn what Webb will see
When it studies e, f and g
O TRAPPIST-1, O TRAPPIST-1
How lovely are thy planets
Music: Jingle Punks
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
,1,Scientist for a Day is an essay contest that challenges students in grades 5-12 to think like scientists. The topics of this year’s essay contest are three mysterious moons that orbit the planet Uranus: Ariel, Oberon, and Titania. The contest is brought to you by NASA’s Radioisotope Power Systems Program, the team that provides spacecraft with the power to visit some of the harshest, darkest, coldest locations in the solar system.
,1,Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star that may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity.
The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as a gaseous world with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere. Starting out at several times the diameter of Earth, this so-called “sub-Neptune” is believed to have quickly lost its primordial hyodrogen and helium atmosphere due to the intense radiation of the hot, young star it orbits.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt
,1,On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus, making the United States the first country to complete a successful mission to another planet.
