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A scrappy little astronomical community is using "Microlensing," a form of gravitational lensing, to reveal Earth-sized worlds, hidden black holes, and a host of mysterious phenomena in space. Microlensing alignments are short-lived compared to larger lenses that endure far beyond human timescales.

Microlensing, an astronomical technique based on trippy relativistic effects is exposing chance alignments in the universe—and the unexplored frontiers that they reveal.

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