GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe

As a planet system passes in front of a star, the star is distorted and magnified.
GEST will image the time series of about 100 million of those stars.
Is the Earth in the button gravitationally lensed?
No. Not all distortions are due to gravitational lensing.

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