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In Milky Way, Thousands of Planets Live in Utter Darkness, New Study Says  |
Life as we don't know it ?   "The Dark is Light Enough" - Christopher Fry |
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| PETE SPOTTS - The Christian Science Monitor |
| Imagine a planet where the night sky is all you have, any time, anywhere you go – where the phrase 'day job†has no meaning. The Milky Way may hold a vast number of such sunless planets – perhaps up to 100,000 times more than all the stars in the galaxy, according to a new estimate from researchers in the United States and Britain. Since 1995, when hunting for planets outside the solar system grew from a fringe field to mainstream astronomy, researchers have uncovered as many as 760 extrasolar planets orbiting other stars – as the Earth orbits the sun – with more than 2,000 additional candidates awaiting confirmation. The vast majority of these are planets in the classical sense – meaning they orbit host stars, although often arrayed in unusual patterns compared with Earth's home system. Since 2000, however, astronomers have discovered planets with ... |
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