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Microlensing · 2012

MOA-2011-BLG-293L b

This world a year lasts 8.21 years; the light you see left it 25.2 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
8.21 years1.1 AU
Temperature
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About this world

MOA-2011-BLG-293L b is a gas giant orbiting MOA-2011-BLG-293L, a star 25.2 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 4.7 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 8.21 years at 1.1 AU from its star.

At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2012 by microlensing with MOA. A foreground star's gravity magnifies a background star; a planet adds a blip.

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