Seven Little Planets and You
You may have noticed that one of Google’s Doodles a while back had a short little GIF about the discovery of seven Earth-sized exoplanets. 40 light years away, seven exoplanets (planets that orbit stars outside our solar system) are orbiting a star 200 times cooler than our sun. These seven celestial bodies pose many interesting questions for the scientific community, and are a light at the end...