NASA’s Kepler suggests 17 billion Earth-sized planets in Milky Way
By Moshe Y. Vardi, on January 8th, 2013
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet to ours. Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft found that about 17 percent of stars in our galaxy have a planet about…
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NASA’s Kepler suggests 17 billion Earth-sized planets in Milky Way
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet to ours. Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft found that about 17 percent of stars in our galaxy have a planet about…
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NASA’s Kepler suggests 17 billion Earth-sized planets in Milky Way
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