Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Billions of Earth-sized planets!

From scitechdaily:

The search for exoplanets—planets beyond our own solar system—has taken off over the last decade, and is now a growing component of UChicago’s research agenda in astronomy. One estimate published in January calculated that our Milky Way galaxy alone contains at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets, with a vast potential for life-sustaining worlds.

How common is the Earth? Is Heaven a planet?

Read more here: http://scitechdaily.com/the-search-for-exoplanets-intensifies/

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