I love living in the future.
Feb. 2nd, 2011 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingKepler finds 1200 extrasolar planets, 54 in the habitable zone, 5 of those Earth-mass-ish, 1 of those Earth-mass.
By looking at 156,000 stars.
And ONLY finding planets that are edge-on to the Earth.
Which is to say, if these results are at all typical, there are about a million Earth-mass habitable-zone planets that orbit edge-on to the Earth, in this galaxy alone.
I love living in the future.
By looking at 156,000 stars.
And ONLY finding planets that are edge-on to the Earth.
Which is to say, if these results are at all typical, there are about a million Earth-mass habitable-zone planets that orbit edge-on to the Earth, in this galaxy alone.
I love living in the future.