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A world in the Whirlpool - how a team of astronomers found evidence of an exoplanet beyond our galaxy

The first ever exoplanet to be detected beyond the Milky Way could be located in the Whirlpool Galaxy, named M51.

skyatnightmagazine.com/space-s

@Bliss I have a Whirlpool dishwasher. Should I be concerned?

@Bliss So it's the transit method but uses x-rays instead of visible light. Cool. We're about to find a lot and more exoplanets then, but we won't know very much about them.

@danielbsmith

We wont until out tech improves or they come visit us. 😀

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