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Saturday, 3 February 2018

Extragalactic exoplanets

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing—an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances from the Earth among other detection techniques—OU researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-astrophysicists-planets-extragalactic-galaxies-microlensing.html

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