Planets orbiting other stars may be a dime a dozen in the Milky Way, but cheap hardly means boring.
From a new pair of planets like Tatooine of "Star Wars" fame, each with its own pair of suns, to a trio of small rocky planets zipping around a red-dwarf star, the cosmos presents a breathtaking plethora of planetary systems. A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way's population of planets exceeds 100 billion.
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Great news.This is why observation from telescope and satellite will always be a far better investment that manned space travel.Single sun solar systems like ours are not uncommon.Other planets like ours are inevitable.
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