The Milky Way Galaxy Seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Milky Way Galaxy Seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico

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UNLV researchers Shangjia Zhang and Zhaohuan Zhu led a team of international astronomers in a study that used the powerful ALMA telescope to discover that in other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (seen here) there is potentially a large population of young planets -- similar in mass to Neptune or Jupiter -- at wide-orbit that are not detectable by other current planet searching techniques.

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NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman

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