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The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, which means that it is composed, among other components, of a disc of stars, gas, and dust in which the spiral arms are contained. At first, it was thought that the disc was completely flat, but for some decades now it has been known that the outermost part ...
Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy. Some could even be pretty close, with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. The findings will be published in The Astronomical Journal, and research was a ...
