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Could There be 100 Billion Potentially Habitable Planets in the Galaxy?March 15, 2013 As we’ve reported recently, the likelihood of findings habitable Earth-sized worlds just seems to keep getting better and better. But now the latest calculations from a new paper out this week are almost mind-bending. Using what the authors call a “very careful extrapolation” of the rate of small planets observed around M dwarf stars by the Kepler spacecraft, they estimate there could be upwards of 100 billion Earth-sized worlds in the habitable zones of M dwarf or red dwarf stars in our galaxy................ Quoting: observation [ link to www.universetoday.com] Quoting: aether i imaging some of these spin at earths rate Quoting: aether I wonder if Kolob does j/k
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