First 'Habitable Zone' Galactic Bulge Exoplanet Found

[hubag bohol]

http://news.discovery.com/
OCT 15, 2013 01:57 PM ET // BY IAN O'NEILL





For the first time, astronomers have discovered a sun-like star playing host to a “habitable zone” exoplanet located inside the Milky Way’s galactic bulge â€" some 25,000 light-years distant â€" using a quirk of Einstein’s general relativity.

But don’t go having dreams of exotic getaways to the glistening lights of the center of our galaxy, this exoplanet is a huge gas giant world, about five times the mass of Jupiter. However, there is something (potentially) very exciting about this new discovery. Like Jupiter, this newly discovered giant exoplanet may possess small satellites; exomoons that could have life-giving potential.