Extremely massive exoplanet discovered in the Milky Way’s bulge

On: November 6, 2017

(Phys.org)—As a result of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a microlensing event, astronomers have found an extremely massive alien world circling a star located in the Milky Way’s bulge. The newly discovered planet, designated OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, is the first Spitzer microlensing exoworld residing in the galactic bulge. The finding was presented October 27 in a paper published on arXiv.org.

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