Has skill finally caught up to the suspected discovery of a planet outside of our own galaxy from five years ago ? gravitative microlensing may excuse the mystery behind a 2004 sighting of something strange in our neighbor galaxy of Andromeda .
In 2004 , a mathematical group of scientists at the Isaac Newton Telescope , on the Spanish island of La Palma , acknowledge “ an uneven microlensing event ” from the Andromeda galaxy . As New Scientist explains , microlensing is when “ a upstage source star is in brief magnified by the gravity of an objective authorize in front of it ” ; at the time , the 2004 result was thought to be a binary lead , but new computer simulations created by a team led by Philippe Jetzer of the University of Zurich – one of the scientist who find it – are suggesting otherwise :
[ A]ccording to the Modern feigning , the lensing convention go a star with a smaller companion weighing just 6 or 7 times the great deal of Jupiter . “ It plausibly could be a major planet , ” says Andrew Gould of Ohio State University , who was not part of the squad . The subject will probably not be settle , since lensing events occur randomly and do not repeat themselves , and for the foreseeable futurity , other technique will be unable to find planets beyond the Milky Way .
Goddammit , skill . Why have n’t you invented FTL distance travel yet , so we could receive out whether or not we really have observe planet next room access already ?
First extragalactic exoplanet may have been found[New Scientist ]
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