Discovering Thousands of Exoplanets via Microlensing

Roman will use gravitational microlensing, a technique sensitive to planets as small as Mars and capable of finding worlds in the habitable zone and free-floating planets, to discover thousands of new exoplanets.

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• Microlensing Exoplanets - Roman Science Support Center at IPAC - Caltech
• Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off to Open New Insights Into the Universe
• Exoplanets - NASA Science
• Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey - Space Telescope Science Institute
• Roman Could Find Thousands of New Worlds — Here's How the Telescope Hunts for Exoplanets | Discover Magazine
• Simulations using GULLS - Roman @ IPAC - Caltech

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