<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df25a026-f743-4764-8722-19c1958ffa93/1DD831C7-9FB6-4EC6-892B-18746FFA9E4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7249884.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7249884.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7249884.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> 'Hundreds of worlds' in Milky Way </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> </FONT><DIV class="mvb"> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="416" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="bottom"><DIV class="mvb"> <SPAN class="byl"> By Helen Briggs </SPAN> <SPAN class="byd"> Science reporter, BBC News, Boston </SPAN> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><IMG width="416" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif" /> </FONT></DIV> <P> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Illustration of planets. Picture credit: Nasa" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44433000/jpg/_44433115_planets_nasa203i.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">Scientists say there may be many more worlds in our solar system</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.</B> </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Future studies of such worlds will radically alter our understanding of how planets are formed, they say. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">New findings about planets were presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2"><B>Nasa telescope</B> </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Michael Meyer, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, said he believes Earth-like planets are probably very common around Sun-like stars.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DD831C7-9FB6-4EC6-892B-18746FFA9E4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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