Extragalactic planet This suspected planet is the first announced in the Andromeda Galaxy. A population of unbound planets between stars, with masses ranging from Lunar to Jovian masses, have been indirectly detected, for the first time, by astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma, in the lensing galaxy that lenses quasar RX J1131-1231 by microlensing. Extragalactic planet An extragalactic planet, also known as an extragalactic exoplanet, is a star-bound planet, or rogue planet, located outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Due to the huge distances to such worlds, they would be very hard to detect directly. However, indirect evidence suggests that such planets
Beyond the Alps Beyond the Alps "Beyond the Alps" is a poem by Robert Lowell. According to Saskia Hamilton, the editor of Lowell's "Letters", Lowell wrote the original version of the poem in 1952. The poem was inspired by a trip to Europe that he took with his second wife Elizabeth Hardwick. It documents his journey, by train, through the Alps, from Rome to Paris in 1950 and captures his feelings towards his waning faith in Catholicism. Evidence of this interpretation can be heard at Lowell's 1963 poetry reading at the Guggenheim Museum, when he introduced his reading of "Beyond the Alps" by