MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is a low-mass exoplanet found by gravitational microlensing, a technique that detects planets through the way their gravity briefly magnifies the light of a more distant star. It was found by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics collaboration, a group using a telescope in New Zealand, and by other telescopes that followed up the event. It is one of the lowest-mass planets detected by this method, only a few times the mass of Earth, and it orbits a very faint host, probably a very low-mass star or a brown dwarf. The discovery suggested that small planets are common around faint stars, and microlensing is one of the few methods able to find them far from Earth.
Before and after
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