Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Maybe Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandkids Will Live On One Of These 10 Exoplanets (INFOGRAPHIC)

Maybe Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandkids Will Live On One Of These 10 Exoplanets (INFOGRAPHIC)



If none of these planets looks like the place you'd like to hang your hat, don't worry. You have other choices. So far, NASA has confirmed the discovery of 1,693 planets outside our solar system, and identified 3,845 additional "candidate exoplanets." And astronomers estimate that in the Milky Way alone, there are at least 8.8 billion planets orbiting stars in a habitable temperature zone.

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