PARIS (AFP) - A scan of small, cool stars in the Milky Way suggests our galaxy has 'tens of billions' of rocky planets located like Earth in zones where life can exist, European astronomers say.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) says it found nine 'super-Earths' in a sample survey of 102 stars known as red dwarves.
'Super-Earths' are rocky planets - as opposed to gassy giants - that orbit their stars in the so-called Goldilocks zone, where the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold but just right to have the potential to nurture life.
In this balmy region, the planet is neither scorched nor frozen, and water can exist in liquid form. The ESO team used a powerful 3.6m telescope, known by its acronym of Harps, at their observatory in Chile's Atacama desert.
Source: The Straits Times (Singapore) ooppss!!...Allah is Great!! If the planet really exists then the Americans and Jews can stay there!! They may have the whole panet to themselves without having to crush the Palestinians.
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