Hubble secret out!

[blobrana]

Hum,

it looks like The Hubble Space Telescope may have discovered as many as 100 new planets orbiting stars in our galaxy, after observing thousands of stars in the central  bulge of the Milky Way.

And if confirmed it would almost double the number of planets known to be circling other stars to about 230!.

The discovery will lend support to the idea that almost every sunlike star in our galaxy, and probably the Universe, is accompanied by planets.  

And on those planets....

[blobrana]

Hum,
yea perhaps...
either way , it`s important...




[BTW, i`m a believer in galactic lifeforms - including those on gas giants...] :-)

[blobrana]

>>Just not very likely, though...

Hum,
 don't know about that - i presume that the star systems too would have `Oort Clouds` (by default, in the process of planet formation)...and that some would have been captured by orbiting gas giants, and coalesced into miniature (awe) `planetary` systems...

And perhaps even as i speak/type the alien invasion fleet is being launch...

i look forward to the launch of the next generation space telescopes to find out.
 :-)

[blobrana]

Hear, Hear!,
"there`s more stars than all the snowflakes that have ever fallen on planet earth, and that includes the Amiga Corporate website."

At last count[?] there was 400 billion stars in this milky way galaxy...

[blobrana]

Hum,
thats roughly
1150000000000000000000 meters wide

(give or take the fuzzy bits at the edge)

[blobrana]

Hum,
i`ve  knocked up a page with an interactive  
Drake equation on it...

R * Fp * Ne * Fl * Fi * Fc * L = N

a  few reasonable numbers maybe:

R =  10   (stars a year)
Fp = 20  


N = at least one

The rest are ?