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New ‘Life In Space’ Hope After Bllions Of ‘Habitable Planets’ Found In Milky Way

Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:31
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Billions of potentially habitable planets may exist within our galaxy, the Milky Way, raising new prospects that life could exist near Earth, a study has found.

New 'life in space' hope after billions of 'habitable planets' found in Milky Way

Hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy Photo: NASA
 

The Telegraph

 
Researchers discovered that at least 100 of the ''super-Earths'' may be on our galactic doorstep, at distances of less than 30 light years, or about 180 trillion miles, from the sun.

Astronomers say the findings were made after conducting a survey of red dwarf stars, which account for about four in five stars in the Milky Way.

continue at The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9170683/New-life-in-space-hope-after-billions-of-habitable-planets-found-in-Milky-Way.html

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