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NASA Asked The Internet To Name The 7 New Planets And Twitter Has Some Interesting Names For Earth-Like Planets!

On Wednesday, NASA made the huge announcement that they had found a solar system of seven new Earth-sized planets, about 40 light years away, which may, in fact, be capable of supporting life.

Yes, the scientists of NASA believe that this newly found solar system has three planets that have the right conditions for the existence of water and can support life.

And the star which the seven planets orbit around is known as TRAPPIST-1, and it is located 40 light years away from Earth.

As expected, the internet wasted no time in making it clear that they want to pack their bags ASAP and move to the new planets to have a fresh start on the TRAPPIST-1 system.

While the internet is still abuzz about NASA’s new discovery of seven planets, they threw open a question to social media users to name the newly found seven planets.

Yes, NASA took to Twitter asking, “#7NamesFor7NewPlanets?” and social media was creative with their answers. 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.

And the internet came up with some really cool answers. With names from Harry Potter to characters in Game of Thrones, Twitterati came with some amazing combination of words.

Soon, #7NamesFor7NewPlanets became trending on Twitter and people decided to come up with their own quirky names for the planets.

Here are some of  the cool names for the planets:

Well, they’re dwarf planets, so makes sense.

A more obvious Harry Potter reference. 

Game of Thrones fans in the house?

Taking a cue from Apple, eh?

This one hates the concept of unnecessary sequels.

Later US-President Donald Trump became their target:

no Monday bcoz nobody likes Mondays & I miss Pluto…

He seems to have an unhealthy obsession with Pluto.

How about Vegetable Solar System…. :-P

This is something to think once:

Have you ever thought of that? No, you only think about yourself.

What do you think of these names? Have some of your own names to add to the list? Let us know your ideas in the comments section below.

NASA Asked The Internet To Name The 7 New Planets And Twitter Has Some Interesting Names For Earth-Like Planets!

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