Some numbers to sustain that
And we will probably manage to discover them this decade with some help from the James Webb Telescope and other awesome scientific projects.
Let's see the numers!
- Our Sun is a star located within the Milky Way galaxy - There are between 100.000.000.000 - 400.000.000.000 stars in our galaxy alone;
- Almost 6.000.000.000 stars may have Earth-like planets around them;
- There are about 2.000.000.000.000 galaxies in the visible Universe;
There are no letters left to provide a number for how many Earth-like planets might be in the Universe, but I will let you do the math and then conclude!
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