A new gas giant planet has been discovered by amateur astronomers
https://tempodeconhecer.blogs.sapo.pt/a-new-gas-giant-planet-has-been-207436
A new gas giant planet has been discovered by amateur astronomers
https://tempodeconhecer.blogs.sapo.pt/a-new-gas-giant-planet-has-been-207436
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Exoplanet. In case you were wondering if they found planet X.
I would like to know how amateur astronomers collaborate on these kinds of efforts. There must be a lot of coordination and effort. Is there a message board somewhere?
> Equipped with personal telescopes in locations often inaccessible to professional observatories, these citizen scientists observed the necessary transit and provided vital data that made the confirmation possible.