# This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing with a rogue planet — a planet…

![This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing with a rogue planet — a planet…](https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/cds/svs/a020000/a020300/a020315/ROMAN_MicroL_RogueP_4k_30fps_ProRes.00213_print.jpg?w=1600&fit=clip)

- Released: October 25, 2023
- Category: illustrations
- Credit: NASA
- NASA source: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/exoplanets/
- Page: https://roman.mixinvisuals.com/image/p3c3f20b8c5c7/this-animation-illustrates-the-concept-of-gravitational-microlensing-with-a/

This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing with a rogue planet — a planet that does not orbit a star. When the rogue planet appears to pass nearly in front of a background source star, the light rays of the source star become bent…