Sorry, this will be long. I tried the game way back when it launched and couldn’t wrap my head around the concept of no up or down and quickly deleted it. Few years later a friend who has played since day one was traveling to Colonia and I was bombarded with cool screenshots fo days. So, just as with Minecraft I gave it another shot, an honest one. After a few hours I was hooked. After a few weeks of running missions I bought a Krait and set off on my first exploration adventure. I made a sort of half circle from the bubble to Colonia. From there I went to Sag A and then back to Colonia. By that point I had found some earth likes and was pretty happy. From there I headed back to the bubble but instead of traveling from station to station I just went straight for the bubble. On that path home I discovered another 19 earth likes...19!! I was back for all of about 3 days before the update that added the FSS and mapping and decided to revisit all my earth likes and map them. After my return from my second trip I watched a video from Down to earth astronomy and fell in love with the clipper. I bought one, did the grind for engineering, and set off last February on my most ambitious adventure yet. I wanted to try and loop the galaxy. My first stop was the Bubblegum nebula. From there I followed the “darkness” as I call it until I was behind Colonia. I then traveled to Colonia for a data dump and set off again. Twice I found the spikes which I can’t remember the name of, as well as several more earth likes, water worlds, ammonia worlds, and for a spell, several helium giants. As I was making my approach to the bubble on my way back I was a little bummed that I hadn’t managed to find any of the mollusks. Then, low and behold, 42 jumps from home I found one, in an asteroid belt. Talk about sweating bullets. That was my first time entering a belt, and I was in a pretty big ship and sitting on a ton of exploration data. After all that, I’ve found 134 earth likes, around 20 helium giants, and gobs of other stuff just like I’m sure the rest of you have. Coolest things I saw, two earth likes orbiting each other, a system with 6 helium giants, and a system with 11...I think...t-tauri stars and four of those had helium giants orbiting them. I also saw a really cool ringed earth like that someone else had discovered. So, now my question is, having found 134 earth likes how does that stack up to other explorers? Did I get really lucky and hit the motherload or is that just a drop in the bucket? I’ll post a few pictures that I took along the way. Thanks for reading my wall of text. 
Finally got some pictures uploaded.
Picture 1 The two ELW’s I found orbiting each other.
Picture 2 A purple water giant. The only one I’ve ever seen. All the others were brown.
Picture 3 10 T-tauri‘s and four had helium rich gas giants orbiting them. Really odd/cool system.
Picture 4 ELW, water world, and ammonia world in the same system. Only time I’ve ever seen this.
Pictures 5, 6 and 7 Another system that had two ELW’s. These were actually on opposite sides of the system when I mapped them.
Picture 8 Pucker moment, when I jumped into this system the game “threw” me through the smaller sun. I thought I was done. lol
Picture 9 The clearest atmosphere I’ve ever seen on an ammonia world.
Picture 10 A class V gas giant I wasn’t too thrilled about mapping. lol
I took a picture of an “egg” giant but when I did there was apparently an issue with the series X and captures. So it’s gone.
Finally got some pictures uploaded.
Picture 1 The two ELW’s I found orbiting each other.
Picture 2 A purple water giant. The only one I’ve ever seen. All the others were brown.
Picture 3 10 T-tauri‘s and four had helium rich gas giants orbiting them. Really odd/cool system.
Picture 4 ELW, water world, and ammonia world in the same system. Only time I’ve ever seen this.
Pictures 5, 6 and 7 Another system that had two ELW’s. These were actually on opposite sides of the system when I mapped them.
Picture 8 Pucker moment, when I jumped into this system the game “threw” me through the smaller sun. I thought I was done. lol
Picture 9 The clearest atmosphere I’ve ever seen on an ammonia world.
Picture 10 A class V gas giant I wasn’t too thrilled about mapping. lol
I took a picture of an “egg” giant but when I did there was apparently an issue with the series X and captures. So it’s gone.
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