Iceball planet,illustration. This is OGLE-2016-BLG-1195L,an exoplanet discovered through a technique called microlensing. it was reported in 2017,and was discovered using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet),operated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute,and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It is about the same mass as Earth,and the same distance from its host star as our planet is from the Sun. As this planet's star is thought to be a brown dwarf star,the planet is frozen and shown here as an iceball planet. It is 13,000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. | |
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