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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on November 21, 2010, 02:35:43 pm
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I guess the Andromedans began invading early.
Link to full article (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/alien-planet-from-another-galaxy-discovered-101118.html)
The Jupiter-like planet orbits a star that was born in another galaxy and later captured by our own Milky Way sometime between 6 billion and 9 billion years ago, researchers said. A side effect of the galactic cannibalism brought a faraway planet within astronomers' reach for the first time ever.
The find may also force astronomers to rethink their ideas about planet formation and survival, researchers said, since it's the first planet ever discovered to be circling a star that is both very old and extremely metal-poor. Metal-poor stars are lacking in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.