Astronomers Find Planets In Another Galaxy For The First Time

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CBS Local — For the first time in history, astronomers have discovered thousands of new planets “in a galaxy far, far away.”
The intergalactic achievement marks the first time astronomers have seen a planet outside of our own galaxy. Using a new method of stargazing, called gravitational microlensing, scientists were able to find as many as 2,000 distant worlds in a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years away.
“Previously, planets have