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How Many Planets Are Habitable. A crude estimate would be to take the number of planets thought to be in the Milky Way and times it by 54 so this would be 54 times 400 billion which makes an estimate of 216 trillion planets. How many could be habitable. To help you get some perspective see this zoomable image of the Andromeda galaxy taken by the Hubble space telescope. Only those planets less than 10 Earth masses or 25 Earth radii are labeled.
This means that the planet should be the right. There are 100 billion planets or more in the Milky Way. Well according to new calculations by astronomers at Open University as many as half of all star systems could contain habitable planets. The numbers are encouraging but they only reflect a. Some could even be pretty close with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. Most of these worlds orbit red dwarfs closer to the bottom of the.
Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope its estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in.
Only those planets less than 10 Earth masses or 25 Earth radii are labeled. The numbers are encouraging but they only reflect a. Some could even be pretty close with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. Theres no confirmation that life exists on these planets but the study used those characteristics to search for super-habitable potentials across 4500. Most of these worlds orbit red dwarfs closer to the bottom of the. The findings will be published in The Astronomical Journal and research was a collaboration of scientists from NASA the SETI Institute.