Astronomers Answer Key Question: How Common are Habitable Planets?

by Gary Kopycinski on November 5, 2013

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BERKELEY–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to answer its main research question: How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets?