{"id":30329,"date":"2010-11-07T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-estimate-for-the-number-of-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-2-5-billion\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:10:57","slug":"new-estimate-for-the-number-of-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-2-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/new-estimate-for-the-number-of-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-2-5-billion.php","title":{"rendered":"New estimate for the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way: 2.5 billion!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out this article from Bad Astronomer<\/i>: How many habitable planets are there in the galaxy?<\/a><\/p>

By now you may have heard the report<\/span><\/span><\/a> that as many as 1\/4 of all the sun-like stars in the Milky Way may have Earth-like worlds. Briefly, astronomers studied 166 stars within 80 light years of Earth, and did a survey of the planets they found orbiting them. What they found is that about 1.5% of the stars have Jupiter-mass planets, 6% have Neptune-mass ones, and about 12% have planets from 3 – 10 times the Earth’s mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>

This sample isn’t complete, and they cannot detect planets smaller than 3 times the Earth’s mass. But using some statistics, they can estimate from the trend that as many as 25% of sun-like stars have earth-mass planets orbiting them!<\/p><\/blockquote>

His conclusion: There are over 2.5 billion habitable planets in our Galaxy. Whoa, my mind just melted.<\/p>

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