UW News
Ethan Kruse
April 21, 2014
‘Upside-down planet’ reveals new method for studying binary star systems
![An image of the Sun used to simulate what the sun-like star in a self-lensing binary star system might look like in a self-lensing binary star system.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/04/04183656/koi3278_cover16-150x150.jpg)
What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a UW student astronomer.