Molinaro wrote:Preliminary analysis of the data from the Kepler telescope indicate that there could be as many as 2,000,000,000 earthlike planets in the Milky Way. Those would be planets 0.8 to 2.0 times the size of earth, orbiting a sunlike star within the habitable zone.
http://www.space.com/11188-alien-earths ... stars.html
This telescope is identifying a lot of targets for the next generation of space based telescopes.
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