but, it is stillljust that, a &pastronomy in overload finding frrm telescopes like hubbell, spitzer,a minute:perhaps one trillion, wiih a t thatts right, trillion gglaxies in the universe. stars you ask. ok. sextillion? that's three where does that leave us with planets? more specifically planets like our own.we're learninn sometting that's of fundamental importance to earths around other stars.bill borucki is the principle investigator for nasa's kepler telescope. its mission&find planets similar n size o the earth orbiting their suns. so far, it has been successful beyond expectations. while they still have to be confirmed, in just the small slice of our galaxy where the telescope looks, of the 12 hundred planet candidates kepler has found, nearly 70 are earth sized. the indication from he data that we haae in hand is that small planets are common, that the gaaaxy makes them efficiently. so they''e going to e aaundant."the number is large enough there must be biilions of such planets in our galaxy. surprise."hhw many ae appy - orbiting at just the right distance from thh sun&to sup