James Webb Space Telescope's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet

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• verity_kindle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yay! My favorite star system!

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• duxbellorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trappist…the Belgian Beer System?

  (Dude, get up, we’re building a spaceship right now.)

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was found using the space telescope Co-founded by the Liège (Belgium) University

    Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST)

    There’s no way to be certain, but there may have been some correlation between the name sake and the teams preferred after work beverage.

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