About this world
OGLE-2019-BLG-1053L b is a super-Earth orbiting OGLE-2019-BLG-1053L, a star 22.2 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 2.5 Earth masses.
It was discovered in 2021 by microlensing with KMTNet. A foreground star's gravity magnifies a background star; a planet adds a blip.