How many planets are in the galaxy? Turns out, lots!

Ethan Siegel,  a theoretical astrophysicist with one of the coolest science blogs, named “Starts with a Bang”, has posted a great article on the newly revealed information from NASA’s Kepler mission, which is on a search for habitable planets. They released their first results with more than 700 new planets found! They now estimate there are more than 1.4 Billion planets in the galaxy! (this is a low estimate). Surely a few of those could be our size and habitable. Some may even contain life.

(Picture: Artist conception of Bellerophon, by Debivort from Wikipedia)