Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @01:14PM from the that's-a-lot-of-away-missions dept.

astroengine writes "Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that exist in our galaxy. They came up with at least 50 billion alien worlds. Today, astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., and the PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork) collaboration have taken their own stab at the 'galactic exo-planetary estimate' and think there are at least 100 billion worlds knocking around the Milky Way."

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Re:This Universe Sucks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-11 14:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*You were, humanity is just too stupid to look past their own interpretations of physical law and accept that things aren't limited to how they see them.
FTFY
Re:This Universe Sucks by mug+funky · 2012-01-11 14:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

all aboard the GodBus!
man, i wish the universe were so simple we could just ask God for interstallar travel :)