article_snippet.sent: an exoplanet is half as massive as Jupiter and could help astronomers gain a better understanding of the distribution of planets in the Milky Waythe Milky Way.
article_snippet.sent: Astronomers are using these blips to find and characterise planets tens of thousands of light-years away in the central bulge of our galaxy, where star crossings are more common.
article_snippet.sent: our don't know if planets are more common in our galaxy's central bulge or the disk of the galaxy, which is why these observations are so important,' Jennifer Yee of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics added.
article_snippet.sent: The discovery demonstrates that Spitzer - from Spitzer unique perch in space - can be used to help solve the puzzle of how planets are spread out in our galaxy.
article_snippet.sent: Astronomers are using these blips to find and characterise planets tens of thousands of light-years away in the central bulge of our galaxy, where star crossings are more common.
article_snippet.sent: And so co-author Andrew Gould of The Ohio State University, Columbus can, in principle, tell co-author Andrew Gould of The Ohio State University, Columbus the relative efficiency of planet formation across this huge expanse of co-author Andrew Gould of The Ohio State University, Columbus galaxy.'
article_snippet.sent: The result is like a planetary treasure map lacking in X's.
article_snippet.sent: Now We can use these single lenses to do statistics on planets as a whole and learn about planets as a whole distribution in the galaxy.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Similar finds could help reveal the distribution of planets in the Milky Way .