Microlensing occurs when a massive object in space, like a star, crosses in front of another star shining in the background.
Watching a star rise right in front of you is fun.
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So Tomic is something of a modern-day rarity: an Australian tennis star appearing on the front pages and the back - and for all the right reasons.
Not helping matters: The Scottish Sunday Herald newspaper today published a picture of the soccer star on its entire front page, with only a thin black line covering the eyes.
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Mostly, these are natural fluctuations, but particularly sharp and regular changes might signify a planet passing in front of a star.
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This rippling suggested a series of rings crossing in front of the star in advance of, and then behind, the profile of the transiting planet.
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Renowned planet hunters Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler made the dramatic announcement last week that they had seen a dimming in the light coming from HD 209458 and said it was caused by a planet passing in front of the star.
It senses the presence of planets by looking for a tiny "shadowing" effect when one of them passes in front of its parent star.
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Telescopes such as Kepler search for planets as they transit, or cross in front of, their star, causing telltale dips in the star's brightness.
But telling just how small a given planet is depends on a relative measurement: how much light there is when the planet is and is not in front of the host star.
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He parades in front of his all-star rhythm band like a cross between Chuck Berry, early Bob Dylan, and Marlon Brando.
The 20-year-old brought proceedings to London's High Court over a story that appeared on the front page of The Daily Star in September, 2008.
Krissada turned to Bill Bensley, a Bangkok-based American who became famous for designing plush resort landscaping in Thailand and Bali before moving to the front ranks of five-star-hotel architects.
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In an interview to be broadcast on Wednesday's edition of Radio Four's arts programme Front Row, the Blackadder star concedes he is better known for what he calls "shallow comedy stuff".
Trappist (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) will study exoplanets by measuring at high precision the "brightness dips" that can be caused by objects transiting (passing in front of) their parent star.
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We walked past a display case of Star Wars aliens, and returned to the front door.
Astronomers detected the new planet as it crossed the face of the distant "sun", dimming the star's light as it passed in front.
Here on Earth, we see the star get brighter as the lens crosses in front, and then fade as the lens moves away.
The transit method for finding planets searches for the small drop in brightness of a star that occurs when a planet passes in front of it and blocks some of its light.
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In 2001 the country's star player Ronaldo was called to testify in front of a Senate commission investigating the circumstances surrounding the national team's 3-0 defeat by France in the 1998 final.
Or you can find her at the newsstand--the 26-year-old is currently on the cover of Allure, but she's certain to be on the front of US Weekly, People or Star sometime soon.
Much like Nike did with Tiger Woods, the Swoosh is out in front when it comes to using a fallen star in an ad campaign.
Kepler flags exoplanet candidates via the transit method, which looks for dips in a star's brightness caused by an object crossing in front of it.
The lone remaining player to wear Robinson's number sat in front of a sculpture of the Brooklyn Dodgers star's No. 42, and chatted about everything from his cut fastball to the 2000 World Series that pitted New York's teams against one another in a true Subway Series.
The breakers are now stronger two blocks north and south of the structure, or directly in front of the pier where the wrecked Jet Star remains, said Greg "Grog" Mesanko, a 62-year-old Toms River resident who for years was at the center of the Seaside Heights surf culture.
Hughes opted to start with Brazil star Robinho on the bench, meaning Craig Bellamy started up front with Adebayor.
Speaking on Radio 4's Front Row, David Oyelowo said the Oscar-winning star had been asked to say "the n-word" in The Paperboy by director Lee Daniels.
On the personal front, Gruffudd's relationship with 102 Dalmatians co-star Alice Evans is blooming.
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