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Title: [NSS]More Planets than Stars - But Axial Tilt may be the Key to Life
Post by: Feed Bot on January 15, 2012, 06:10:35 PM

More Planets than Stars - But Axial Tilt may be the Key to Life

There is an average of more than one planet per star in the Milky Way
Image Credit: NASA / ESA / ESO
With the forthcoming publication in the journal Nature on 12 January, it is estimated that there are more than 100 billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy.  That means more than one planet [...]

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