Telescopes Team Up to Find Distant Uranus-Sized Planet Through Microlensing
Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have confirmed the existence of a Uranus-sized exoplanet orbiting far from its central star, discovered through a technique called gravitational microlensing. These results appear in two papers in The Astrophysical Journal.