Simulation of the gravitational microlensing effect (VIDEO)

Royal Astronomical Society

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A simulation of the gravitational microlensing effect induced by a foreground isolated planetary body on the light from a background star located towards the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.

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David Specht / Eamonn Kerins / University of Manchester

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