OU Astrophysicists Discover Planets 3.8 Billion Light Years Away using Microlensing (IMAGE)

University of Oklahoma

OU Astrophysicists Discover Planets 3.8 Billion Light Years Away using Microlensing

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Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image.

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University of Oklahoma

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