Scientists Estimate Tens Of Billions Of Earth Like Planets Are In Our Galaxy

New data from the European Southern Observatory's HARPS (High Truthfulness Radial walk back and forth Foxhole Hunter) planet-hunting minimize suggests existing can be tens of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy.

Astronomers analyzing this new data set a price that nearly forty percent of red dwarf stars in the Pale yellow Way galaxy may bring Earth-sized planets orbiting them amid the reasonable stage set for life. Red dwarfs construction surrounding eighty percent of the stars in the galaxy, and, according to "Agitated.com", their incidence means "that existing are tens of billions of feasible sitting room to challenge for life former Dirt, amid at lowest amount 100 such planets sited submit."

Artists impression of sunset on Gliese 667 Cc. (Credit: ESO/L. Calcada)Now this recent result of red dwarf stars, scientists naked a planet in the Gliese 667 triple star system. This is the ultra planet naked in that system, and has been named Gliese 667 Cc. The planet is situated nearly the center of the habitable zone, and, according to astronomers, it "in the neighborhood surely has the reasonable stage set for the existence of explanation water on its end." Gliese 667 Cc is the ultra super-Earth planet sited in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star naked trendy this HARPS result. The first was Gliese 581d, which was explicit in 2009.

Sooner than mega information yet to come in from ESO's HARPS and NASA's Kepler space minimize, and current data lasting to be analyzed by astronomers, pretend discoveries about our galaxy are sure to appoint mega ordinary. Every person new discovery helps us report mega about our technical universe, and, perhaps, brings us closer to prudence extraterrestrial life.