27 Feb
2014
27 Feb
'14
10:46 a.m.
Remember that all of these planet discoveries are in a very small target area: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/fov-kepler-drawin... Also they are only planets with orbital planes that cause transits of their parent stars. We can extrapolate that the total number of any particular type of planet discovered must be huge in the galaxy, even if only one or two candidates have been confirmed so-far.