This is an artist's concept of the gas giant planet orbiting the newly identified host star. The planet has not been directly imaged, but its presence was detected in 2003 microlensing observations of a field star in our galaxy. The rings and moon around the gas giant are hypothetical, but plausible, scientists say. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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