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Science 8 August 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5327, pp. 765 - 766
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5327.765
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ASTRONOMY:
Flickers From Far-Off Planets

James Glanz

An unusual collaboration of telescopes spaced around the Southern Hemisphere has uncovered two strong candidates for planets circling stars thousands of light-years from Earth. The telescopes made the detections by monitoring stars in the Milky Way's crowded central bulge for gravitational lensing: apparent brightenings that could indicate another, dimmer star with a retinue of planets drifting across the line of sight.

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