The First Candidate Planet Outside of the Milky Way
NASA’s Kepler mission and other efforts have shown that planets are ubiquitous in our galaxy. However, finding planets outside the Milky Way is a different challenge. Because the light from […]
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NASA’s Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the Sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of […]