Crowdsourcing Science: Citizen Astronomers Discover Rare Planetary System
Amateur astronomers with Planethunters.org and Yale University have announced the discovery of an unusual solar system in deep space. The system contains a gas giant, dubbed PH1, approximately the size of Neptune circling a binary star. What makes it unusual is that orbiting much further out, roughly 1000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, is yet another binary star system. The […]
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