CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
How We Find and Characterize — NASA Science: Exoplanets
- Key
- nasa-howwefind
- Authors
- NASA
- Type
- webpage
- Container
- NASA Science: Exoplanets
Raw CSL JSON
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"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
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2026,
11,
5
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Claims
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In gravitational microlensing, the gravity of a foreground star magnifies the light of a background star passing just behind it; a planet around the foreground star can add its own brief signal.
"The gravity of a star in the foreground will magnify the light from a background star that passes just behind it."
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