NASA announced this week that citizen scientists had spotted a Jupiter-like exoplanet in data from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
In a Thursday news release, the agency wrote that Tom Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer from Washington state, had helped to discover a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years from Earth , orbiting a star with the same mass as the sun .
Happening on Twitter
Did you know that you can help NASA spot planets around distant stars? Volunteer citizen scientists are uncovering… https://t.co/6X5DUQSJ1x NASA (from Pale Blue Dot) Fri Jan 14 17:15:00 +0000 2022
Hello, super-Jupiter! Citizen scientists spot a planet 379 light-years away that's three times more massive than th… https://t.co/jP0FXfwk1R NASAExoplanets (from Beyond) Fri Jan 14 00:16:13 +0000 2022
Citizen scientists find 'Jupiter-like' planet, NASA says https://t.co/1vfAbUTOXd FoxNews (from U.S.A.) Sat Jan 15 18:30:00 +0000 2022
Using TESS data, scientists and citizen scientists (members of the public) looked for changes in brightness of near… https://t.co/5kbqbVaO38 DoNASAScience (from Washington DC) Fri Jan 14 00:27:59 +0000 2022
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