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Exoplanets from another galaxy spotted – take that, Kepler fatigue!

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3.8 billion light years away, or one-third of the distance across the observable universe

Due to the expansion of space, the observable universe is 93 billion light years across, so that's ~4% rather than a third.

This is certainly not to detract from the impressiveness of the observation, however.

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