Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @05:36AM from the needle-in-a-needle-stack dept.

Nancy Atkinson writes "Using a technique called pixel-lensing, a group of astronomers in Italy may have detected a planet orbiting another star. But this planet is unique among the 300-plus exoplanets discovered so far, as it and its parent star are in another galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy, to be exact. Technically, the star in M31 was found to have a companion about 6 times the mass of Jupiter, so it could be either a brown dwarf or a planet. But either way, this is a remarkable feat, to find an object of that size in another galaxy."

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Another dimension by StikyPad · 2009-06-10 05:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Intergalactic Planetary, Planetary Intergalactic?

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Re:that is ... umm ... great? by Scragglykat · 2009-06-10 05:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Bottom line, is this anything but a penis comparison for astronomers who can find the farthest away planet?
...and this astronomer is hung like a brown dwarf!!!1
That's no planet! by maroberts · 2009-06-10 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a Space Station!

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