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Milky Way Consists of A Minimum Of 100 Billion Planets, New Analysis Finds:The Milky Way consists of a minimum of 100 billion planets, or enough to possess one for every of their stars, and most of them could be able to support conditions favorable to existence, according to a different estimate from researchers in the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California (Caltech).That exact figure of 100 billion planets continues to be recommended by earlier, separate studies, however the new analysis corroborates the sooner amounts and might increase them, because it was carried out on one star system — Kepler 32 — which consists of five planets and it is situated some 1,000 many years from Earth among the patch of sky found between your constellations Cygnus and Lyra, where NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pointed.Actually, the brand new star census estimate, which came after researchers verified three from the five planets round the star Kepler 32, is just conservative, based on the Caltech astronomers who developed it after staring at the Kepler 32 system."There's room of these amounts to actually grow," stated Jonathan Quick, a Caltech astronomer who's charge author on the paper around the new findings, inside a phone interview with TPM. "They are not likely to shrink. Our calculation is totally new meaning that we're making the calculation of planets in compact systems round the most populous kind of stars within the universe." Carl Franzen's got more at TPM.