28 million light-years from Earth is the first planet discovered by man outside the Milky Way.

Scientists used NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope to study the decrease in the brightness of X-rays as a planet passed in front of them, finding a new celestial body. independent. The opening image of our article shows her published artistic representation.

The planet, 28 million light-years away, orbits a binary system known as M51-ULS-1 in the M51 Vortex Galaxy.

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There is a large black hole in the system, or a neutron star with its companion star, the mass of which can be about twenty times greater than that of our Sun.

if it was natural astronomy The planet presented in an astronomical journal is already there, it has gone through millions of difficult years: it had to survive the supernova explosion that created the neutron star or black hole. Your future will not be simpler either: you will probably have to survive accompanied by a companion star in a supernova, which can greatly destroy your world.

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