Categories Blog ESO: Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones in Milky Way Post author By Mike Post date Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 10:20 am EDT 1 Comment on ESO: Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones in Milky Way Artist’s impression: super-Earth Gliese 667 “The international team estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and probably about one hundred in the Sun’s immediate neighbourhood.” Very cool news… now let’s figure out a way to get there…! ESO – eso1214 – Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones around Red Dwarfs in the Milky Way. Tags ESO, Habitable Zone, HARPS, La Silla Observatory, Milky Way, Red Dwarf