Astronomers May Have Found The First Planet In Another Galaxy

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In a galaxy far, far away, a huge planet may be orbiting a binary star system. If this planet is real, it would be the most distant world we have ever spotted – the first planet to be found in another galaxy.

A team of researchers led by Rosanne Di Stefano at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts spotted this potential planet, which is called M51-ULS-1b. It resides…

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