We Are Not Alone
The Kepler Space Telescope a telescope specially made to look of planets orbiting other stars has had resounding success after looking at its first patch of sky.
The telescope has found 1,235 planets, of which 68 are earth size and 54 in the habitation zone meaning they would have roughly the same climate of earth.
THe remarkable thing about this is the telescope which can only see 1/400 of the galaxy and has only searched the minutest area has found so much. If these figures repeat themsevles across the galaxy that means there are millions of Earths alone. This is without counting moons of gas giants in the habitable zone which most likely would outnumber planets of this kind.
New Kepler Discoveries – Planetary News | The Planetary Society
