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Astronomers might have found the first exoplanet outside of our Milky Way. Revealed by X-rays, the bizarre world is about as big as Saturn, has lived through a nearby supernova, currently orbits a black hole or neutron star, and is destined to experience a second nearby supernova in the future.


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