Herald of the Change: A microlensing Jupiter-analogue spotted in K2 data portends Roman's yield of new planets - Astrobites

Astronomers have just found Jupiter's twin in a distant solar system. Their discovery technique may surprise you, and might just be the most important method for discovering Earth-like exoplanets in the next decade...

Title:Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing Authors: D. Specht, R. Poleski, M.T. Penny, E. Kerins, I. McDonald, Chung-Uk Lee, A. Udalski, I.A. Bond… [+8248 chars]

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