{"id":88397,"date":"2019-03-05T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:03:13","slug":"tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"Tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets in our galaxy, say astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pffF4S-2BCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2013<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Enlarge | + <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"habitable zone\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"195\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Artist\u2019s representation of the \u201chabitable zone,\u201d the range of orbits where liquid water is permitted on the surface of a planet. The authors find that 22% of Sun-like stars harbor a planet between one and two times the size of Earth in the habitable zone. (Credit: UC Berkeley)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>One in five stars in our galaxy like the Sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface temperature conducive to life, astronomers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley<\/a> and University of Hawaii, Manoa now <a href=\"http:\/\/newscenter.berkeley.edu\/2013\/11\/04\/astronomers-answer-key-question-how-common-are-habitable-planets\/\" target=\"_blank\">estimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The estimate was based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler observations of NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-habitable-earth-size-planets-in-our-galaxy-say-astronomers\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/tens-of-billions-of-potentially-ha...stronomers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2013 Enlarge | + Artist\u2019s representation of the \u201chabitable zone,\u201d the range of orbits where liquid water is permitted on the surface of a planet. The authors find that 22% of Sun-like stars harbor a planet between one and two times the size of Earth in the habitable zone. (Credit: UC Berkeley) One in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}