First Exo-Galaxy Planet Located
In an historic first Philippe Jetzer and his team of astronomers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland have spotted the first planet located outside our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a recent article in New Scientist.
Using the same method employed to locate planets within our own galaxy the group of star-mappers used gravitational microlensing (the effect a planet has as it passes in front of its own star) and uncovered a Jupiter-sized planet within our nearest galactic neighbor — The Andromeda Galaxy, located nearly 2 million light years from our Milky Way.
Since microlensing can sometime lead to error, further investigation of this new exo-galaxy planet will continue for an indefinite period of time to ensure validity.
Another galaxy? Only The Travelor and Wesly Crusher can take us there.