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Messier 51

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Messier 51

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According to NASA, an exoplanet may have been discovered in M51 and would be about 28 million light-years away, meaning it would be thousands of times farther away than those in the Milky Way".

The exoplanet exists in a binary system called M51-ULS-1, which contains a black hole or neutron star orbiting a companion star. 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/chandra-sees-evidence-for-possible-planet-in-another-galaxy.html

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