Scientists Discover Milky Way Has 100 Billion Alien Planets
A new study details this "mind boggling" discovery.
A Jan. 2 study published in The Astrophysical Journal finds our Milky Way galaxy likely hosts upwards of 100 billion planets. An article in The Space Reporter reports the number may be a difficult to verify, "but NASA officials are saying that a batch of recently discovered planets prove that the universe is littered with hundreds of billions of planets similar those within our own solar system." Experts are calling it "mind boggling" and "staggering" and say it "basically means there's one of these planets per star." The Space Reporter said that Jonathan Swift, a postdoctoral student at Caltech and lead author of the study, and his colleagues arrived "at their estimate after studying a five-planet system dubbed Kepler-32, which lies …
