 This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a small region of our galaxy where the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet (catalogued as OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53) is located. The star is identified by the crosshatch at frame center. blowup of the target (lower left) reveals the light of two stars: a foreground star and a background star superimposed on each other. The background star is the brighter, solar type star, and the foreground star is the fainter star. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Bennett (University of Notre Dame) and J. Anderson (Rice University)
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