Wednesday, 28 March 2012

About 40 percent of red dwarf stars have super-Earths

I should rename this blog 100 Billion Habitable Planets.
A European team said that about 40 percent of red dwarf stars - the most common type in the Milky Way - have a so-called "super-Earth" planet orbiting in a habitable zone that would allow water to flow on the surface. 
Since there are around 160 billion red dwarfs in the Milky Way, the number of worlds that are potentially warm enough and wet enough to support life is enormous.
'Tens of billions' of habitable exoplanets in Milky Way

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