Milky Way has 17 billion Earth-sized planets

[StarFuryG7]

Over at io9:

Astronomers say there are at least 17 billion Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way

Back in June of last year, astronomers working with the Kepler space telescope made the bold proclamation that all stars have planets. While this is all fine-and-well (if not intuitively obvious), what was not known is how many Earth-sized planets are out there.

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[CRAMBAM]

Sounds like McCoy is right.

[StarFuryG7]

Jan 8, 2013 19:20:45 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

Sounds like McCoy is right.

I love that we're learning so much more so quickly now compared to the past, but I hate that there aren't any manned missions to anywhere.

Hell, I'll even take a trip to the Moon again, so long as it's also a jumping-off point to go to Mars.

:::Sigh:::