Following
the recent discovery of seven new planets, NASA asked the internet
for a helping hand in naming them and #7NamesFor7NewPlanets quickly
began trending. Unsurprisingly, the results did not disappoint.
On Wednesday
NASA made the huge announcement that they had found seven new planets
orbiting a dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. While that may not be
astounding, NASA finds planets all the time, boffins believe that at
least three of those could be the right temperature to hold liquid
water, meaning that life could exist.
The agency
also confirmed that there was no easy method for naming planets
outside of our solar system and that's why they turned to the
internet for help. Eager netizens were only too willing to have their
names, or at least their suggestions, written in the stars.
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