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It has everything to do with the available means that we have, for now. For the record though, we haven't yet been able to spot planets in other galaxies, just
by userulluipeste 1y ago
It has everything to do with the available means that we have, for now. For the record though, we haven't yet been able to spot planets in other galaxies, just in our own Milky Way. The spotted ones just happened to be there when we decided to look, twice. To spot an astral body properly sized to fit the definition of planet, which we yet suspect to orbit around our own star, we should be lucky enough to look exactly at it and not at something else.
- bagels 1y agoI thought the same, but amazingly, there are some early results that suggest a transit was observed in another galaxy: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/exoplanet-discoveries/first-evidence-of-a-planet-identified-beyond-our-galaxy/ https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/exoplanet-disco... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extragalactic_planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extragalactic_planet