Which of the following is FALSE?
A) Over 330 extra-solar planets have been discovered to date from radial velocity surveys.
B) The most common type of extra-solar planet found to date has a few times the mass of Jupiter and lies within a few AU from its parent star.
C) No extra-solar planets have been imaged directly to date;all have all been found by indirect methods.
D) A star can brighten significantly due to gravitational lensing when a planet that orbits it passes directly in front of the star.
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