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Cosmic census pins 50 billion planets in Milky Way
Scientists estimate at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way with about 500 million in the habitable Goldilocks zone. Kepler data from a small sky patch yields extrapolated totals. 1,235 candidate planets found with 54 in the habitable zone.
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Washington
Milky Way
NASA
Kepler
Kepler Science
William Borucki
Earth
Goldilocks Zone
Borucki
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Venus
Yale