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The New York Times

There are at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, according to NASA estimates, of which about 4 billion are sunlike. If only 7% of those stars have habitable planets, there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable Earths in our galaxy.

Looking for Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe (Published 2020)

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft increases the number of habitable exoplanets thought to exist in this galaxy.

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And it’s awefully quiet. The galaxy belongs to us - we just have to make it through the next century

9:10 AM · Nov 9, 2020