This system might make it easy to spread out with 7 planets around this star that would be possible to move between them in days or weeks at the most.

Only problem is traversing the 39 light years from Earth.

It is suggested it would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there with our present technology

Close enough that observers expect to learn much more about planets around other stars and it is an indicator of how many planets there are in the universe if each star has some planets around them with billions of stars just in the Milky Way galaxy

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/7-earth-like-planets-discovered-1.3992156

Scientists have discovered what looks like the best place so far where life as we know it may exist outside our own solar system.

Seven Earth-sized planets, all of which could contain water, have been found orbiting a small star 39 light-years away.

"We have made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there," said Amaury Triaud, co-author of a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature.

"I don't think any time before we had the right planets to discover and find out if there was.

"Here, if life managed to thrive … then we will know. Before, it was indication; now, we have the right target."

The discovery is the first of its kind. Never before have so many Earth-like planets been found orbiting a single star.