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'This is encouraging news for investigations into habitable planets.'... Still more revelations about planets beyond our own solar system are coming up this week, but the bottom line for all this is that there's a big cosmos out there -- with plenty of opportunities for planets and even life to develop. And that'll always be amazing... 'We used to think that the Earth might be unique in our galaxy,' Daniel Kubas, a colleague of Cassan's at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and a co-author of the Nature paper, said in a news release from the European Southern Observatory. 'But now it seems that there are literally billions of planets with masses similar to Earth orbiting stars in the Milky Way.' |
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by Keith Pope on Thursday, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:30:00 PM