The first planets beyond the Milky Way may have been discovered0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 10, 2018
The “rogue” worlds are said to be located 3.8 billion light-years away.
The “rogue” worlds are said to be located 3.8 billion light-years away.
We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.