New Estimates Suggest There Are Around 300 Million Habitable Planets in Our Galaxy

Even just in the Milky Way galaxy, there are more than 300 million exoplanets that could have life on them. This means that 300 million planets are likely to have the right conditions for life, even life with a lot of complexity, to grow on their surfaces. Are there no other people in the universe?

How big is the place where we live? With the way we measure the universe and the technology we have now, we can't find out. We can make educated guesses, but we are still a long way from being able to study the universe.

We can learn more about how big our galaxy is. Overall, it's a big place with a lot of planets. But how many of these worlds are like Earth, and how many of them can people live on? This is another hard problem to solve, but we can do the math based on what we've seen over time.

New research based on information from the Kepler space observatory says that there could be up to 300 million planets in our galaxy that could support life. The good news about the new estimates is that they could be very close to Earth. None of these possibly habitable exoplanets are more than 30 light-years away.

Scientists from NASA, the SETI Institute, and other places all over the world worked together on a big project to help us learn more about the galaxy we live in.

Even though 300 million planets seems like a lot, it is only a small part of how many planets are thought to be in our galaxy. The Milky Way has at least one planet for every star, according to our best estimates. This means that the galaxy we live in could have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion planets.

The universe we can see

On the other hand, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the part of the universe that we can see.

https://wonders-astro-2k.vercel.app/blog/new-estimates-suggest-there-are-around-300-million-habitable-planets-in-our-galaxy

Out of ALL this we are the only intelligent life form in existence?

Fund Raiser!!!

sorry.  couldn't resist. NASA is so predictable.


It is however exciting and imaginative to think and talk about it  and i love the movies about such stuff. And 'life' will come to this planet at some point when the political elites need it.   But it won't be extraterrestrial...it will be interdimensional.

I wonder if all those places have happy hours ?

Calypso Jones wrote:Fund Raiser!!!

sorry.  couldn't resist. NASA is so predictable.


It is however exciting and imaginative to think and talk about it  and i love the movies about such stuff. And 'life' will come to this planet at some point when the political elites need it.   But it won't be extraterrestrial...it will be interdimensional.

""But it won't be extraterrestrial...it will be interdimensional.""

Either ither or, it will still be alien to us ?

you think for one moment another life form would chance contact with us humans? you would need to assume everything in the universe was suicidal for your thesis to be upheld.

Are you saying WE are deadly or that ETs might be deadly.

Sending transmissions into deep space hoping to contact alien life is like putting up a GUNFREE ZONE sign in front of an elementary school.










spelling correction..elementary 1/12/23

Red Lily wrote:Even just in the Milky Way galaxy, there are more than 300 million exoplanets that could have life on them. This means that 300 million planets are likely to have the right conditions for life, even life with a lot of complexity, to grow on their surfaces. Are there no other people in the universe?

How big is the place where we live? With the way we measure the universe and the technology we have now, we can't find out. We can make educated guesses, but we are still a long way from being able to study the universe.

We can learn more about how big our galaxy is. Overall, it's a big place with a lot of planets. But how many of these worlds are like Earth, and how many of them can people live on? This is another hard problem to solve, but we can do the math based on what we've seen over time.

New research based on information from the Kepler space observatory says that there could be up to 300 million planets in our galaxy that could support life. The good news about the new estimates is that they could be very close to Earth. None of these possibly habitable exoplanets are more than 30 light-years away.

Scientists from NASA, the SETI Institute, and other places all over the world worked together on a big project to help us learn more about the galaxy we live in.

Even though 300 million planets seems like a lot, it is only a small part of how many planets are thought to be in our galaxy. The Milky Way has at least one planet for every star, according to our best estimates. This means that the galaxy we live in could have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion planets.

The universe we can see

On the other hand, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the part of the universe that we can see.

https://wonders-astro-2k.vercel.app/blog/new-estimates-suggest-there-are-around-300-million-habitable-planets-in-our-galaxy

Out of ALL this we are the only intelligent life form in existence?

Any planet that could possibly support life is light years away. Does it matter if life exists elsewhere? Either we need to be able get there or they need to be able to get here for it to matter and that leaves everything up to them. All of our radio transmissions are going into space. Our welcome mat is out and any alien in range can study us. It's their move if they exist.

Wrigley's Pleasure Planet used to be to go to place before Risa.

https://stpendragon.fandom.com/wiki/Wrigley%27s_Pleasure_Planet

https://www.startrek.com/news/risa-and-gene-roddenberrys-unrealized-queer-vision

Crusader wrote:

Red Lily wrote:Even just in the Milky Way galaxy, there are more than 300 million exoplanets that could have life on them. This means that 300 million planets are likely to have the right conditions for life, even life with a lot of complexity, to grow on their surfaces. Are there no other people in the universe?

How big is the place where we live? With the way we measure the universe and the technology we have now, we can't find out. We can make educated guesses, but we are still a long way from being able to study the universe.

We can learn more about how big our galaxy is. Overall, it's a big place with a lot of planets. But how many of these worlds are like Earth, and how many of them can people live on? This is another hard problem to solve, but we can do the math based on what we've seen over time.

New research based on information from the Kepler space observatory says that there could be up to 300 million planets in our galaxy that could support life. The good news about the new estimates is that they could be very close to Earth. None of these possibly habitable exoplanets are more than 30 light-years away.

Scientists from NASA, the SETI Institute, and other places all over the world worked together on a big project to help us learn more about the galaxy we live in.

Even though 300 million planets seems like a lot, it is only a small part of how many planets are thought to be in our galaxy. The Milky Way has at least one planet for every star, according to our best estimates. This means that the galaxy we live in could have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion planets.

The universe we can see

On the other hand, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the part of the universe that we can see.

https://wonders-astro-2k.vercel.app/blog/new-estimates-suggest-there-are-around-300-million-habitable-planets-in-our-galaxy

Out of ALL this we are the only intelligent life form in existence?

Any planet that could possibly support life is light years away.  Does it matter if life exists elsewhere?  Either we need to be able get there or they need to be able to get here for it to matter and that leaves everything up to them.  All of our radio transmissions are going into space.  Our welcome mat is out and any alien in range can study us.  It's their move if they exist.

No it doesn't matter but it's interesting don't you think? We'll NEVER get there, wherever there is, but to think we are IT amongst the multitude of galaxies and universes out there is a naive viewpoint imo.

I think many people close their mind to the existence of other life forms because they visualize little green/grey men with big eyes, ET or maybe Alf.

If I were to ever encounter an alien, I would certainly keep my mouth shut about it.