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Science

Beachwood

(106 posts) Wed Feb 19, 2014, 10:13 AM Feb 2014

Kepler's New Universe (video)

Published on Feb 19, 2014
Kepler has opened up a new universe. Only about 20 years ago, we didn't know if there were any other planets around any other stars besides our own, now we know we live in a galaxy that contains more planets than stars. Every star in our galaxy has on average 1.6 planets in orbit around it.

Published by Deep Astronomy

(Most readers here probably knew this already or had read it somewhere else. Just thought it was an interesting enough video to share.)