RocketSTEM Issue #7 - May 2014 | Page 66

its smaller companion is 2,000 to 1. ward locating others. The discovery was made by watching a chance which can be witnessed only once. “We won’t have a chance to distant star, the closer star can act tant one. These brightening events planet will act as a second lens to brighten or dim the light even more. star relative to its planet. - Additional observations were - the Probing Lensing Anomalies - orbiting companion: a moon. While astronomers are actively looking - telescopes in New Zealand and gravitational 64 64 microlensing, takes www.RocketSTEM .org