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Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way

Posted by timothy on from the just-visiting dept.

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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  1. space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Space..... the final frontier....

  2. Title is confusing or incorrect by data64 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If the planet is extragalactic, how was it discovered in the Milky Way galaxy ?

  3. Where's an editor when you need one? by pongo000 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Headline is extremely misleading. It's not an extra-galactic planet (otherwise, how the hell could it be in the Milky Way?)...it's a planet of extra-galactic origin.

    The editorial standards (such as they are on /.) have really gone downhill in the last few years...

  4. Re:Old by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was following you right up until 16 thousand years old - where does this number actually come from?