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Billions of Earthlike Planets Found in Milky Way

2013-01-07 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Tens of billions of Earthlike worlds are strewn across the Milky Way, many of them circling stars very much like our own sun, astronomers said today. Earlier research suggested that rocky planets might be much more abundant around small stars than sunlike ones. (Also see "New 'Super Earth' Found at Right Distance for Life.") But a fresh analysis of data from NASA's Kepler mission, which launched in 2009, suggests this is not the case, according to new research presented at the annual meeting...

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