news First planet found outside Milky Way

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Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.

Nearly 5,000 "exoplanets" - worlds orbiting stars beyond our Sun - have been found so far, but all of these have been located within the Milky Way galaxy. The possible planet signal discovered by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope is in the Messier 51 galaxy. This is located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59044650

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Why am I reminded of Event Horizon the movie? Lol

 

[jhm]

Finding "a planet" outside our galaxy doesn't seem that big of a deal. I could have guessed there was "a planet" somewhere outside of this galaxy, given the scope of this mind bending existence ...but I won't be negative, a good step forward

 

[RogueWriter]

Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.

Nearly 5,000 "exoplanets" - worlds orbiting stars beyond our Sun - have been found so far, but all of these have been located within the Milky Way galaxy. The possible planet signal discovered by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope is in the Messier 51 galaxy. This is located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59044650

Thanks for the post, that was really interesting.