• Question: do you think there is any more planets in deep space?????????

    Asked by wolf spirit ( Ox0) to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Definitely! We’ve now found over 1,000 other planets orbiting other stars and we’re still finding more every day. Astronomers now think that almost every star in the sky has at least one planet, and some have four, five or even more!

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @wolf spirit ( Ox0) Steven’s right – there are bound to be millions – billions of other planets. But the key thing is can we find a planet that could harbour life. These are planets that exist in the so-called Goldilocks Zone – the habitable zone around a star where the conditions are not to cold, not to hot, but just right to have water. Astronomers think there could be about 40 billion earth-size planets in tees habitable zones…….

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      There are huge numbers of planets out there in deep space. The Kepler space telescope was a planet-hunting telescope, and it looked in a very tiny fraction of the sky, and found a planet around nearly every single star it looked at. (Sometimes it found five planets.) So all the stars in the sky were likely to have formed with planets – and if they’re that common, it’s likely that every other galaxy behaves in the same way! So there are probably trillions of planets out there!

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