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Cold planets exist throughout the galaxy, even in the galactic bulge. Researchers led by Osaka University and NASA have used gravitational microlensing to detect cold planets similar to Jupiter and Neptune throughout the Milky Way, from the galactic disk to the galactic bulge.


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