#7NamesFor7NewPlanets: NASA looks for help naming new discoveries, internet obliges
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.
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets?
— NASA (@NASA) February 24, 2017
TRAPPIST-1b
TRAPPIST-1c
TRAPPIST-1d
TRAPPIST-1e
TRAPPIST-1f
TRAPPIST-1g
TRAPPIST-1h
😉 https://t.co/QS80AnZ2Jgpic.twitter.com/gis6Ba7UBu
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.
READ MORE: 7 new Earth-sized planets discovered, 3 found 'in star's habitable zone' - NASA (VIDEO)
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.
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— Imperator Furiosa (@blackdeanarys) February 24, 2017
what
if
their
people
already
named
them
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— Heather (@pinklady_ktown) February 24, 2017
Flint
Still
Doesn't
Have
Safe
Drinking
Water
Earth 2
— trutherbotred (@trutherbotred) February 25, 2017
Earth 2s
Earth 2s Plus
Earth 2s Plus 128GB
Earth 2s Plus 128GB Black
Earth 2s Plus 128GB Rose Gold
Earth 3#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— ♡ (@UnicornTika) February 24, 2017
Monica
Phoebe
Rachel
Ross
Chandler
Joey
Gunther
Puff Daddy
— Craig (@craigoOZ) February 24, 2017
Puff
Puffy
P. Diddy
Diddy
Sean
Combs #7NamesFor7NewPlanets
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— Jordan Freiman (@JordanFreiman) February 24, 2017
The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious
Fast 5
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— Mike Pons (@mikepons) February 24, 2017
Far from Trump1
Far from Trump2
Far from Trump3
Far from Trump4
Far from Trump5
Far from Trump6
Far from Trump7
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
— Aviva Jacobs (@JacobsAviva) February 24, 2017
Sleepy
Happy
Dopey
Sneezey
Grumpy
Bashful
Doc
give
— emma (@gnikcufclifford) February 24, 2017
trans
youth
students
their
rights
back
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
give
— emma (@gnikcufclifford) February 24, 2017
trans
youth
students
their
rights
back
#7NamesFor7NewPlanets
