LONDON: In a breakthrough discovery, the Kepler telescope has claimed the existence of nearly a billion Earths in our galaxy. The NASA data reveals that about a billion of earth-like, rocky plants are orbiting their respective ‘Suns’, signaling prospects of life on these look-alikes.
On Thursday, the latest Kepler data has offered new insights on the abundance of Earth-like planets around sun-like stars. The novel name given to these latest finds is ‘Eta-Earth’ and the landmark discovery has been made by Natalie Batalha, a NASA astrophysicist who is the mission scientist for the Kepler telescope.
Batalha confirmed that the M, K, and G dwarfs comprise about 90% of the stars in the galaxy. The M type stars have been claimed to be the most common in the galaxy comprising about 70% of the population of Main Sequence stars.
