Twenty-eight new planets this year ... now that's SOMETHING!!

Our Milky Way (home to us earthlings) has somewhere on the order of 200 billion stars. That's 200,000,000,000 possible places for planets to be lurking. And yes, the American Astronomical Society says that we've found 28 new ones out there somewhere in the past year. We might think we're a rare sort of phenomenon, but the meeting ongoing in Honolulu this week says otherwise.

Just thought you'd like to know.