Is there anybody out there? – 2.2 billion planets like earth

Friday, July 25th, 2014

While astronomers haven’t discovered aliens, 2013 was the year that they discovered that the Milky Way is inhabited by 20 billion planets like earth.

With the Milky Way being one of up to 500 billion galaxies, we’re looking at 10 sextillion planets.

Numerically, one sextillion looks like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – times this by ten and the chances of us being alone in the Universe appear slimmer than ever.

Space discoveries are happening at a rapid pace and the past year has been filled with fascinating discoveries including most recently, ‘the Godzilla of the Earth’.

Here are eight discoveries about the vast and stunning universe we live in. Continue reading

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Tags: Another Earth, Astronomy

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