{"id":42049,"date":"2017-05-11T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42049"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:44:01","slug":"newly-discovered-trappist-1-red-dwarf-star-system-seven-planets-synchronize-nearly-perfect-time-three-habitable-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/newly-discovered-trappist-1-red-dwarf-star-system-seven-planets-synchronize-nearly-perfect-time-three-habitable-zone.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Red-Dwarf Star System &#8211;&#8216;All Seven Planets Synchronize in Nearly Perfect Time, With Three in the Habitable Zone'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42050\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_ultracool_dwarf_star_TRAPPIST-1_from_the_surface_of_one_of_its_planets.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42050\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42050\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_ultracool_dwarf_star_TRAPPIST-1_from_the_surface_of_one_of_its_planets-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"In TRAPPIST World\" width=\"597\" height=\"844\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A public domain image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).<br>This artist\u2019s impression shows an imagined view from the surface of one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth and are the best targets found so far in\u00a0the search for life outside the Solar System. They are the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star. In this view one of the inner planets is seen in transit across the disc of its tiny and dim parent sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An amazing solar system beyond our own:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2017\/05\/newly-discovered-trappist-1-solar-system-all-seven-planets-synchronize-in-nearly-perfect-time-with-t.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2017\/05\/newly-discovered-trappist-1-solar-system-all-seven-planets-synchronize-in-nearly-perfect-time-with-t.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 An amazing solar system beyond our own: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2017\/05\/newly-discovered-trappist-1-solar-system-all-seven-planets-synchronize-in-nearly-perfect-time-with-t.html \u00a0 Posted from Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Red-Dwarf Star System --&#039;All Seven Planets Synchronize in Nearly Perfect Time, With Three in the Habitable Zone&#039;&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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