See microlensing in action
Here’s how astronomers detect free-floating planets.
Published:
April 23, 2012
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech
This NASA artist’s animation illustrates the technique used for finding free-floating Jupiter-mass planets in space. Astronomers think gravitational interactions ejected such worlds early on from their developing solar systems.
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