Kepler Telescope and Planets Discovered

I am going to try to post this again where it can be seen by Dr. Newton. It's buried in comments and I really did have this posted earlier.

Thanks. I am going to use this as a starting point for my blog, which comes from an AP article entitled Census finds Milky Way is teeming with planets. According to this article, astronomers said there are 50 billion planets in the Milky Way and that 50 million of them are in the area that is not too hot or not too cold region of the galaxy.

It's interesting that these numbers were extrapolated from data collected the first year of NASA's planet hunting telescope Kepler.

I attempted to post a picture of the Kepler space craft with no success, so I am rather frustrated with this blogging thing, to say the least. The account that will allow me to blog is the Angus account and I somehow also created the fizteach account, which does not seem to give me new post rights.

To get back on topic, with many possible "Goldilocks" planets, it is possible that there is life either more or less advanced than ours. I guess we could relate this to the TV series, V.