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This could be the first extragalactic planet we’ve ever found – ZME Science
Status report: astronomers may have found a planet outside our galaxy, something that has never been done before.
We’ve found a lot of planets in recent years. Big and small, far and close, but they all have one thing in common: they’re in our galaxy. Now, a team of researchers from the US and China believe they’ve found the first planet outside of our galaxy, and it’s glorious.
Left: false RGB Chandra/ACIS-S image of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M 51 (total exposure of 850 ks). The planet M 51-ULS1 is the orange source at the center of the 60” × 60” dashed white box. Right: HST image of the area defined by the w…
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