Rogue Planet Gave Itself Away with Warped Light ⚡ экспресс
Original: "KMT-2024-BLG-0816/OGLE-2024-BLG-0519 -- A Microlensing Event with Candidate Free-Floating Planet Lens and Blended Light"
Astronomers found a wandering planet by how its gravity momentarily amplified the light of a distant star.
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Imagine a world without sunrises, forever wandering in the dark. Astronomers found such an 'orphaned' world when its gravity briefly lit up a distant star's light. Perhaps in our Galaxy, there are more of these lone planets than stars.
🎯 Gravitational lensing was predicted by Einstein back in 1936, but he thought it impossible to detect.
🎬 In science fiction, rogue planets are icy worlds holding secrets of ancient civilizations, like in Asimov's novel 'Nemesis'.