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Iceball Planet Artist's Concept
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Iceball Planet Artist's Concept

NASA / JPL · 2017-04-26 · photograph (digital archive)

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This artist's concept shows OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, a planet discovered through a technique called microlensing. The planet was reported in a 2017 study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Study authors used the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), operated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, to track the microlensing event and find the planet.

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Credit lineIceball Planet Artist's Concept. NASA/JPL, 2017-04-26. Public domain. ID: PIA21430.

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