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Einstein’s theory helps to reveal Jupiter’s distant duplicate

For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.
Artist's conception of the Kepler space telescope

Before its career ended in 2018, the Kepler telescope (artist’s illustration) captured data on a far-distant planet with the mass of Jupiter. Credit: NASA

A near-identical twin of Jupiter discovered around a distant star is the first planet to be found from space using a gravitational effect called microlensing1.

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Nature 614, 198 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00232-9

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  1. Specht, D. et al. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad212 (2023).

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