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

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: October 27, 2021 11:45 AM2021-10-27T11:45:14+5:302021-10-27T11:45:14+5:30

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.