HUNTING FOR PLANETS

HABITABLE PLANET     OR    EXO PLANETS    OR     EARTH LIKE PLANETS

Habitable alien planets similar to Earth may not be that rare in the universe.....

About One in five Sunlike stars observed by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has an Earth-size planet in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and, potentially life could exist, according to the new study. If these results apply elsewhere in the galaxy, the nearest such planet could be just 12 light-years away.

How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets? Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler observations, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Hawaii, Manoa, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface temperature conducive to life.

Given that about 20 percent of stars are sun-like, the researchers say, that amounts to several tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in the Milky Way Galaxy.

You too can find yourself Earth like Planets from here... click this NASA's link.....
http://kepler.nasa.gov/multimedia/Interactives/keplerFlashAdvDiscovery/