Spotlight: The search for the very first star
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The Potential of Lalyon Life in the Universe
This is an alien hunter. What we've done is now seen thousands of alien worlds, and when you run the numbers, there's a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. Now, thanks to Kepler and some other telescopes, we've been able to hone in on exactly how many might have a world like Earth around a star like this sun. And last time I did the calculation, we were sitting at about four billion Earth twins or Earth-like worlds around some like stars. A lot of potential, and this is why we're so excited about following up with these kinds of measurements by JDub.
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