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Crowded Habitable Zones: Tens Of Billions Of Rocky Planets Around Red Dwarfs In The Milky Way
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:53
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The international team, using ESO’s HARPS planet finder, shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars.
The scientists estimate that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the Sun’s immediate neighbourhood. This is the first direct measurement of the frequency of super-Earths around red dwarfs, which account for 80% of the stars in the Milky Way…. Rest of article with all images here:
