Friday, February 08, 2013

4.5 Billion earth like planets in Milky Way Galaxy Say Scientists - February 6, 2013

The odds of finding life out in the universe exponentially went up after a revelation in how science now thinks how many earth-like planet are out there in the Milky way.
This really is huge news and yet another step forward to disclosure on the existence of ET life:

Billions of Earth-like alien planets likely reside in our Milky Way galaxy, and the nearest such world may be just a stone's throw away in the cosmic scheme of things, a new study reports. Astronomers have calculated that 6 percent of the galaxy's 75 billion or so red dwarfs — stars smaller and dimmer than the Earth's own sun — probably host habitable, roughly Earth-size planets. 
That works out to at least 4.5 billion such "alien Earths," the closest of which might be found a mere dozen light-years away, researchers said. "We thought we would have to search vast distances to find an Earth-like planet," study lead author Courtney Dressing, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), said in a statement. "Now we realize another Earth is probably in our own backyard, waiting to be spotted." Read more source
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