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NASA Chandra Space Telescope discovers first planet outside Milky Way Galaxy.

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: October 27, 2021 11:45 IST

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The Galaxy is huge and the Universe is infinite. Like the solar system, this space is said to have hundreds of suns and thousands of Earth-like planets. Astronomers regularly study various galaxies in the Milky Way.
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NASA is at the forefront of this research, and scientists here have discovered another new planet. The discovery of a new planet about 28 million light-years from Earth has been hailed as a major achievement by astronomers.
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NASA's 'Chandra' space telescope has been observing space since 1999. The telescope is orbiting the earth in an elliptical orbit. The study of X-ray sources in an infinite space, such as neutron stars and black holes.
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The telescope has been named 'Chandra' by NASA after S. Subramaniam, a Nobel laureate of Indian descent and a famous American astronomer. The telescope began observing parts of the ‘Messier 51’ galaxy.
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United States have claimed that a new planet was discovered while analyzing the information picked up by the moon. A report on this has been published in the magazine 'Nature'. The planet discovered by scientists is the size of planet Saturn.
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M-51-ULS-1 is a neutron star, the observations sent by the lunar telescope were being studied. The researchers then noticed that the X-rays coming from the source M-51-ULS-1 had been declining for some time.
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After re-examining these observations, the researchers were convinced that there must have been a Saturn-shaped planet around the source M-51-ULS-1. For the first time in the history of astronomy, the existence of a planet in another galaxy outside the Milky Way has been discovered.
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Until now, space observations through various space telescopes were and are beginning. Attempts are being made to find Earth-like planets through space telescopes such as Spitzer, Kepler, and TESS. So far, many planets have been identified.
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All these planets are a few thousand light-years away from Earth. Predictions are being made as to whether there is life on such planets. Until now, such planets had been discovered in the Milky Way.
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But for the first time, the existence of a planet in a galaxy a few million light-years away outside the Milky Way has been discovered through the lunar telescope, Chandra. This led to the discovery of a new way to find the existence of a planet near the X-ray source.
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