Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way

astroengine writes "Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy. As you'd expect, this caused quite a mess; stars, dust and gas being ripped from the intergalactic interloper. In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled and astronomers have spotted an odd-looking exoplanet orbiting a metal-poor star 2,000 light-years from Earth. Through a careful process of elimination, the extrasolar planet (known as HIP 13044b) actually works out to be an extragalactic planet, a surviving relic of the massive collision eons ago."

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Re:I call bullshit on that

[Sockatume]

I've got the paper in front of me and statistically, you've got more chance of not being a douchebag than this does of being a rounding error. I mean that quantitatively: they calculated the chances of this being a false alarm at 5.5 × 10^-6, which sounds like pretty much the same chance as you being a reasonable human being.