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Milky Way May Contain 100 Billion Planets Based on exoplanet observations made using the Kepler space telescope, astronomers estimate that our galaxys ratio of stars to planets is at least one to one. Karen Hopkin reports [ Carl Sagan speaking:] “There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contains something like a 100 billion stars.” Well, Carl Sagan would have loved to get the latest estimate of our galaxy’s planet count. Caltech astronomers set their sites on a star called Kepler 32. It’s an M dwarf star, a class that’s smaller and cooler than our sun, and accounts for about t