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Tens of billions of planets are inhabitable

By AAP and AG staff • 30 March 2012

A recent scn of the Milky Way has revealed a high percentage of possible Earth-like planets. (Credit: Getty)

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Astronomers have found that 40 per cent of Red Dwarf stars in the Milky Way have a super-Earth orbiting them.

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