January 3, 2013

Hundred Billion Planets in Our Galaxy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2256552/Our-galaxy-contains-100BILLION-planets-new-study-claims-means-theres-star-sky.html

Our galaxy contains 100BILLION planets, new study claims (which means
there's one for every star in the sky)
Analysis only includes planets in close orbits around certain kinds of
stars - meaning that estimate could yet be DOUBLED
Astronomers at Caltech came up with the stunning figure from an
analysis of data from Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope
By DAMIEN GAYLE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:01 EST, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:14 EST, 3 January 2013

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