The planetary system with a white dwarf, an Earth-like planet and a brown dwarf cannot be seen; the point of light in (c) is from the background source star that is no longer magnified.

But as they observed the star system, the bright light of the background star ... discovered doppelganger, Earth may be far enough away to survive. Two-Faced: Wacky White Dwarf Keeps Its Surface ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf ... which from the background magnified the amount of light heading toward the telescope by 1,000 times.

The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ... The magnification of the background star -- also in the Milky Way, but about 25,000 light years from Earth -- was still only a pinprick ...