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The three objects were discovered in 2007 by an international collaboration of five different groups: Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA), the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), the Microlensing Follow-up Network (MicroFUN), the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network (PLANET), and the Robonet Collaboration. These ground-based observations uncovered a star and a planet, but a detailed analysis also revealed a third body that astronomers could not definitively identify.  Image caption: This artist's illustration shows a gas giant planet circling a pair of red dwarf stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000 light-years away. The Saturn-mass planet orbits roughly 300 million miles from the stellar duo. The two red dwarf stars are 7 million miles apart.  Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. 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Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>     ","keywords":["Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211","title":"Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":140000,"height":958},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":25000,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":25000,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":358000,"height":1437},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000211~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1991-03-29T00:00:00Z","description":"Composite image of the planet Mars taken by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC).","keywords":["HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST)","MARS (PLANET)"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"S91-32389","title":"Composite image of the planet Mars taken by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/S91-32389~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1016,"size":72000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/S91-32389~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":508,"size":20000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/S91-32389~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":508,"size":20000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/S91-32389~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1524,"size":161000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S91-32389/S91-32389~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA22233/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2018-01-25T00:00:00Z","description":"An artist's rendition of how a rocky planet forms.  As a rocky planet forms, the planet-forming material gathers in a process known as \"accretion.\" It grows larger in size, and increases in temperature, along with the pressure at its core. The energy from this initial planet forming process causes the planet's elements to heat up and melt. Upon melting, layers form and separate. The heavier elements sink to the bottom, the lighter ones float to the top. This material then separates into layers as it cools, which is known as \"differentiation.\" A fully formed planet slowly emerges, with an upper layer known as the crust, the mantle in the middle, and a solid iron core.  InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The InSight mission will help answer key questions about how the rocky planets of the solar system, as well as how rocky exoplanets, formed. So while InSight is a Mars mission, it's also more than a Mars mission.  The lander seeks the fingerprints of the processes that formed the rocky planets of the solar system, more than 4 billion years ago. It measures the planet's \"vital signs:\" its \"pulse\" (seismology), \"temperature\" (heat flow) and \"reflexes\" (precision tracking).   https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22233","description_508":"An artist's rendition of how a rocky planet forms. 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The 13-billion-year-old planet orbits a helium white-dwarf star and the millisecond pulsar B1620-26, seen at lower left. The globular cluster is deficient in heavier elements for making planets, so the existence of such a world implies that planet formation may have been quite efficient and common in the early universe. Object Names: B1620-26, M4 Image Type: Artwork  Illustration Credit: NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)  To learn more about this image go to:  <a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0709hstssu.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0709hstss...</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b>  is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.","keywords":["Ancient Planet in a Globular Cluster Core","space","nasa","galaxy","hubbletelescope","goddard","hubble","gsfc","goddardspaceflightcenter","globularstarclusterm4"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090","title":"Ancient Planet in a Globular Cluster Core"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":183000,"height":960},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":480},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":480},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":319000,"height":1440},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002090~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13034/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2010-04-14T17:00:02Z","description":"This image taken with the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope, shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120 light-years away. 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This diagram shows the approximate distance of the jovian planets from the Sun.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA17304","secondary_creator":"NASA/Lunar and Planetary Institute","title":"Gas Planet Orbits"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17304/PIA17304~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1135,"size":89000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17304/PIA17304~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":567,"size":33000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17304/PIA17304~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":567,"size":33000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17304/PIA17304~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2035,"width":1806,"size":179000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2006-04-05T16:30:03Z","description":"This artist concept depicts the pulsar planet system discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan in 1992. 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Wolszczan used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to find three planets circling a pulsar called PSR B1257+12.","keywords":["Spitzer Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA08042","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"Extreme Planets  Artist Concept"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/PIA08042~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":105000,"height":1024},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/PIA08042~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":32000,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/PIA08042~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":32000,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/PIA08042~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":190000,"height":1536},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08042/PIA08042~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2400,"width":3000,"size":349000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2021-01-22T00:00:00Z","description":"Detailed measurements of the physical properties of the seven rocky TRAPPIST-1 planets and the four terrestrial planets in our solar system help scientists find similarities and differences between the two planet families.  https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24373","description_508":"Detailed measurements of the physical properties of the seven rocky TRAPPIST-1 planets and the four terrestrial planets in our solar system help scientists find similarities and differences between the two planet families.","keywords":["TRAPPIST-1"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA24373","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"TRAPPIST-1 and Solar System Planet Stats"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/PIA24373~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":104000,"height":746},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/PIA24373~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":35000,"height":373},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/PIA24373~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":35000,"height":373},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/PIA24373~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":187000,"height":1120},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA24373/PIA24373~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3500,"width":6000,"size":1089000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17998/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2014-04-10T15:00:00Z","description":"Researchers have detected the first exomoon candidate -- a moon orbiting a planet that lies outside our solar system. Using a technique called microlensing, they observed what could be either a moon and a planet -- or a planet and a star.","description_508":"Researchers have detected the first exomoon candidate -- a moon orbiting a planet that lies outside our solar system. Using a technique called microlensing, they observed what could be either a moon and a planet -- or a planet and a star.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA17998","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"Moon or Planet? 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The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using astrometry, a method in which the wobble induced by a planet on its star is measured precisely on the sky.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA12015","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"A Planet as Big as its Star  Artist Concept"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12015/PIA12015~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":123000,"height":1024},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12015/PIA12015~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":39000,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12015/PIA12015~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":39000,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12015/PIA12015~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":222000,"height":1536},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12015/PIA12015~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2400,"width":3000,"size":411000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA10106/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2007-11-06T16:49:28Z","description":"This plot tells astronomers that a fifth planet is in orbit around the star 55 Cancri, making the star the record-holder for hosting the most known exoplanets.","description_508":"This plot tells astronomers that a fifth planet is in orbit around the star 55 Cancri, making the star the record-holder for hosting the most known exoplanets.","keywords":["55 Cancri","PlanetQuest"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA10106","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/SFSU","title":"Wave of a Planet"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA10106/PIA10106~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":720,"size":53000,"height":540},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA10106/PIA10106~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":540,"width":720,"size":56000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14886/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2011-12-20T18:00:01Z","description":"This chart compares the first Earth-size planets found around a sun-like star to planets in our own solar system, Earth and Venus. 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Of the almost 900 planets outside our solar system that have been confirmed to date, this is the first to be found at such a great distance from its star. The suspected planet is orbiting the diminutive red dwarf TW Hydrae, a popular astronomy target located 176 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Hydra the Sea Serpent.  Read more: <a href=\"http://1.usa.gov/196B6lZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.usa.gov/196B6lZ</a>  NASA, ESA, J. Debes (STScI), H. Jang-Condell (University of Wyoming), A. Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Roberge (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Schneider (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory), and A. 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Kornmesser  Read more: <a href=\"http://1.usa.gov/1dnDZPu\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.usa.gov/1dnDZPu</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagram.com/nasagoddard?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet","hd189733b"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427","title":"NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":58000,"height":914},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":19000,"height":457},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":19000,"height":457},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":112000,"height":1371},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001427~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17303/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2008-08-19T23:00:00Z","description":"This diagram shows the approximate distances of the terrestrial planets from the Sun; they include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.","description_508":"This diagram shows the approximate distances of the terrestrial planets from the Sun; they include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA17303","secondary_creator":"NASA/Lunar and Planetary Institute","title":"Inner Planets Diagram"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17303/PIA17303~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1135,"size":78000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17303/PIA17303~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":567,"size":30000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17303/PIA17303~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":567,"size":30000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17303/PIA17303~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2035,"width":1806,"size":159000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA19344/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2015-06-11T17:50:01Z","description":"Planets having atmospheres rich in helium may be common in our galaxy, according to a new theory based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. 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Such crossings, or transits, are observed by telescopes like NASA Hubble and Spitzer to glean information about planets atmospheres.","description_508":"A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist depiction. 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The two other worlds in the system, L 98-59c and L 98-59d, are respectively around 1.4 and 1.6 times Earth’s size. 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The two other worlds in the system, L 98-59c and L 98-59d, are respectively around 1.4 and 1.6 times Earth’s size. All three were discovered by TESS using transits, periodic dips in the star’s brightness caused when each planet passes in front of it.","description_508":"NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has confirmed the tiniest planet in its catalog so far — one of three discovered around a bright, nearby star called L 98-59. As shown in the illustrations in this video, all could occupy the “Venus zone,” the range of distances from the star where a Venus-like atmosphere is possible. 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