"The Sculptor Galaxy is in a sweet spot. It is close enough that we can resolve its internal structure, but at the same time ...

For reference, the Milky Way’s diameter is about 100,000 light-years, about the same size as the Big Wheel. The blue galaxy in the corner of the above image is just 1.5 billion light-years away ...

"The fact that this star hosts a giant planet has big implications for the total number of giant planets we estimate exist in our galaxy," said study co-author Daniel Bayliss from the UK's Warwick ...