The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a crop of 16 possible planets circling stars near the bustling centre of the Milky Way. Five are whipping around their stars in less than a day, giving them the shortest „year“ on record. Unlike the vast majority of extrasolar planets found to date, the new ones are also very distant, lying 26.000 light years away – well beyond our own galactic suburb. That suggests they are common throughout the Milky Way, which probably contains billions of planets.

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy