NASA Shows How A Single Star Is Stealing The Show In Our Galaxy - News18
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NASA shared a picture of the brightest single star located in the Lacerta constellation. The star is a million times nearer to us than the galaxy, which is located over 45 million light-years away. It is considered a 'foreground star' that can interfere with fainter light from farther objects. NASA explained that microlensing allows astronomers to use the gravitational pull of foreground stars to magnify the light of background stars and infer the characteristics of planets accompanying the foreground star. The picture also shows a galaxy with stars among clouds of gas and dust. The post has over 400,000 likes on social media.

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