I'm John Batchel with David Livingston.

This is Hotel Mars, and we are 40 light years out from Earth.

Trapist One is the name of the ultra-cooled dwarf,

and it is blessed with seven planets.

B and C have had their own paper some years ago, so I'm going to start there.

David, you have a question about

B and C. Are they primarily of interest because of their special features or because this

happens to be a system that's relatively close to Earth and our technology allows us to begin exploring it.

Benjamin, you want to take that, and then Julian?

Yeah, so we love all the exoplanets.

They're all great in their own ways, and everything from hot Jupiter is to tempered

Earth-sized planets.

But there is sort of a holy grail for us astronomers that study exoplanets and that is finding another planet

like our own we want to answer that question is earth a unique place in the universe or a common

outcome of planet formation or something in between and so in order to do, we have to move towards the small stars to study the small planets,

like Julian has said.

And so for a long time, there is a, there is a hunt for finding a nearby small planet around a small star that we could study in detail.

And what was so amazing about Trappus 1 in 2016 and 2017 is at one of the closest possible

ultraltar Pdorf stars, not only did we find one transiting Earth-sized planet, but we found

seven transiting Earth-sized planets.

Everything from planets hotter than Earth, getting scorched

up on a one-and-a-half-day orbit around this star to planets, what we think have temperatures

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