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By Jason McClellan
An exciting announcement was made recently that suggests there could be billions of extraterrestrial-inhabited planets in our very own galaxy. According to MSNBC, a statistical analysis based on a survey of millions of stars suggests that there is at least one planet for every star in the sky, and probably more, adding up to approximately 160 billion planets in the Milky Way.
A team of international scientists recently published findings in the journal Nature that conclude “stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception,” and many of those are likely to be similar to Earth. The estimate is that one in ten planets is the right temperature to sustain life.....
Image credit: credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO
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