Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds

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:Plus minus 50 billion

[mug funky]

you're really upset at being downmod for a two word post?

something tells me you need to reinforce your ego somehow - it's looking a bit fragile.