A Giant Planet Microlensing Event - SciTechDaily

Over 5,000 exoplanets have been detected to date, with more than 90% of them found by using the transit or radial velocity techniques. Of the other 10%, 105 were found using the microlensing method which takes advantage of the fact that the path of a light be…

ByHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsJuly 26, 2022 A Hubble image of a red galaxy acting as a gravitational lens for a more distant blue galaxy, bending its light into an arc. Exoplanets can… [+4977 chars]

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