• Question: @Daniel do you know anything about the planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0124L

    Asked by anon-294351 on 13 May 2021.
    • Photo: Emma Yhnell

      Emma Yhnell answered on 13 May 2021:

      Hello, I wasn’t too sure about this so I looked it up! It looks like this is one of the farthest planets away from Earth that we know it. Over 13,000 light years away!

    • Photo: Jennifer Graham

      Jennifer Graham answered on 13 May 2021:

      Hi, I’m not an astronomer but have just learnt something cool from reading your question. This planet was detected using microlensing – which is a telescope that sees how gravity bends the light emitted from another star! This means you can see things really far away, or things that aren’t so bright, like exoplanets.

    • Photo: Daniel Hurst

      Daniel Hurst answered on 14 May 2021:

      Honestly, I haven’t heard of this before! My work is much more chemistry-in-the-lab focussed then up in the stars! But a quick google and I now know its a gas planet about 13000 light-years away.

      Given that one light-year is 6 trillion miles, thats pretty far away… infact its one of the most distant planets that we have information about! It’s located within our galaxy, but is a lot more toward the middle of the galaxy than we are 🙂

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