Study: Billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way

Alien Planets

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Alien Planets

This artist rendering released Monday Jan. 7,2013 by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

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