# TRAPPIST-1 on SpaceSphere

> A red dwarf far smaller and cooler than the Sun, with seven rocky planets packed inside an orbit tighter than Mercury's.

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A red dwarf far smaller and cooler than the Sun, with seven rocky planets packed inside an orbit tighter than Mercury's.

## Facts

- **Position**: 346.62639, -5.04346 (Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive; ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Gaia DR2, via TIC v8 (Stassun et al. 2019))
- **Distance**: about 40.54 light years (Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive; ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Gaia DR2)
- **Brightness**: about 17.02 (Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive)
- **Spectral class**: about M8.0 V (Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive)
- **Surface temperature**: about 2,566 K (Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive)

## Can you see it tonight?

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## Sources

- This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program.

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