Sunday 4 February 2018

First exoplanets spotted beyond the Milky Way

Thousands of exoplanets, like the Kepler-11 system (pictured), have been found within the Milky Way, but ...

As of January 2018, well over 3,500 planets have been confirmed from outside our Solar System, and that number is constantly growing. All of these have been spotted within our neighborhood of the Milky Way, but with numbers like that it was basically a given that planets were pretty common across the universe. Now astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma (OU) have confirmed that assumption with the first detection of extragalactic exoplanets.

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