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PhotonQ-Young solar System (Photo credit: PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE ) 100 billion alien planets fill our galaxy: study - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News :  ""I usually try not to call things 'Rosetta stones,' but this is as close to a Rosetta stone as anything I've seen," said co-author John Johnson, also of Caltech . "It's like unlocking a language that we're trying to understand — the language of planet formation ."" Related articles 100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy: Study 100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy: Study 100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy: Study 100 billion planets in our Galaxy alone Something Like Melancholia 100 billion alien planets fill our Milky Way Milky Way Contains At Least 100 Billion Planets, New Analysis Finds 100 billion alien planets fill our galaxy: study The Milky Way Is Home To More Than 100 Billion Alien Planets 100 Bi...

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia NASA: Kepler telescope discovers strange new planet | The State Column : "NASA will reveal the latest batch of discoveries made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope on Monday, according to a statement released by the space agency. NASA says it will hold a press conference at its Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California . The press conference is the first of the inaugural Kepler Science Conference, which will focus on findings made by the Kepler telescope. The conference will run from December 5 to December 9 and will feature more than 110 scientific presentations, officials said." The exoplanet, which is known as Kepler-21b, is just 1.6 times bigger than earth, making it a so-called “ super Earth .” However, the planet orbits so close to its parent star that astronomers say its surface temperature to be about 2,960 degrees Fahrenheit . The planet reportedly orbits at a distance of six million...