Washington: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cluster of planets that could potentially be suitable for life.
Astronomers have observed a seven-planet system called TRAPPIST-1 orbiting a Sun-like star.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted the system 39 light-years away from Earth and obtained important details about it.
The most important of these details is that these planets are in a habitable region of their host star. The habitable zone is the area where water can exist in liquid form.
This is a feature that is essential for the development of life on a planet.
Scientists hope that this system will also detect other traces of carbon dioxide or methane in the future.
(Photo: NASA)
According to experts, these seven planets are as far from their central star as the distance between the Sun and the first planet of the solar system, Mercury.
