Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Planets 'spotted' outside our own galaxy for first time

Discoveries of exoplanets within the Milky Way have been happening regularly for some years now, with 403 found since the first one was spotted in 1995. However, scientists studying remote galaxies, some up to 10 billion light years away, believe they have seen signs of planetary formation within them – the first such evidence found. Erin Mentuch and a team at the University of Toronto

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