Stars in the Milky Way (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen

Stars in the Milky Way

Caption

There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. Observations show that planets orbiting around stars are more the rule than the exception and approximately one out of every ten stars have a planet roughly the size of the Earth with an orbit that, if there was water and atmosphere, would create a temperature and climate roughly that same as on Earth -- we could live there.

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ESO/M. Kornmesser

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