TRAPPIST Exoplanets

TRAPPIST-1 solar system, around 40 light years away from Earth. In fact this is the latest competition conceived by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team, this time seeking to challenge the worldwide evolutionary computing community.

While the TRAPPIST-1 star was discovered in 1999, its accompanying planetary system was detected in 2016. It has become the most closely studied solar system other than our own, and is a priority target for the recently-deployed James Webb Space Telescope. A total of seven rocky worlds orbit around a miniature red dwarf sun, only a little larger than Jupiter – all sufficiently tightly-packed around it to fit within the orbit of Mercury.

Driving interest in TRAPPIST-1 is the fact that at least three of its planets appear to be orbiting within the habitable zone, otherwise known as the ‘Goldilocks zone’, with the potential for liquid water, potentially favouring life.

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