APOD 3.3 (Six Worlds for Kepeler 11)

NASA scientists recently discovered a new technique for finding planets that is already proving itself to be extremely effective: immediately after locating 6 planets orbiting around the star Kepler-11 (with most of them being larger than Earth and inside Mercury's orbit!), they applied this technique to a much larger area of the sky, and found 1,200 planets in their view.  The most amazing part was that this "larger area" was only equal to about 1/400th of the sky, so the actual number of inhabitable planets that we might someday colonize could be astronomical.