Exoplanet found… from another galaxy!!

[CoderGuy]

Pretty interesting!

Today, astronomers announced that they have found a new exoplanet, a planet orbiting another star. Nearly 500 exoplanets have been found in the past 15 years, so what’s the big deal, you may ask?
The big deal is that this planet and star are from another galaxy!

The site has some good graphics...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...nother-galaxy/

[sgreger1]

They just found one in the milky way as well. Seen it in wired magazine. I love how like 10 years ago they thought there were no other earth-like planets.

[BadAxe]

They just found one in the milky way as well. Seen it in wired magazine. I love how like 10 years ago they thought there were no other earth-like planets.

The one he is talking about IS in the Milky Way. It was born in another galaxy, but survived when the Milky Way ate its own galaxy.

[c.nash]

That's crazy shit right there.

[lxskllr]

Pretty cool stuff. Space is fascinating. It would be cool to be able to travel faster than light so you could see everything out there. I bet there's some amazing stuff spread around :^)

[Darwin]

What is really interesting to me is the sophistication of analysis required to ascertain that the planet bearing star belongs to a star stream remnant of an absorbed galaxy. We've known for a long time that the Milky Way has collided with and absorbed other small galaxies but only recently have "local" star regions been identified as being originally extra-galactic. This is just the first time we've detected a planet around one of those stars but is a fine achievement nevertheless. The magazine article makes rather a bigger splashier deal, complete with breathless misleading headline, out of this than is strictly warranted but that's only because it's Discover Magazine and not Scientific American.