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.