Remember that we still can't detect earth-sized planets so we don't know how many there are those... and even these big gas giants can be detected only from closest stars.

Still interesting nonetheless, I seem to recall a line from a certain movie called Men In Black.

"There's nothing in Orion's belt, its just a star cluster"

Not Anymore Zed.

-wD

And if there are billions of planets revolving around billions of suns there has got to be life some where else.

not to bust up a legitimate science conversation, but legends concerning the (alleged) 1954 Ike-Aliens summit/treaty discussion often paint the aliens as coming from a planet in Orion (they're described, in these urban legends, as tall greys).

Though humanoid life probably can't evolve on a gas giant, it's not unreasonable to think that there may be other planets in this system.

well the linked nasa projects.. are for finding planets.. regular ones.. and discerning their atmoshere.. we may yet discover many new wells of life