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Broad_Surprise_958 on July 1, 2025 11:35 am Are there a lot of non-citizen astronomers? Or is that common terminology? The Kilonova seekers website is a great idea regardless. Open sourced astronomy.
whyisthesky on July 1, 2025 11:44 am This article itself is quite short, but if you’d like more information the [full paper is open access ](https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa53823-25/aa53823-25.html)(and there is also a [preprint ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11524)version). The press release by the university of warwick also gives quite a nice summary ([here](https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/public_take_the_lead_in_discovery_of_new_exploding_star)) alongside images and animations.
Javamac8 on July 1, 2025 11:48 am I know there’s more to it, but I like to think it’s just a guy in his back yard pointing up and saying “there it is”
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Are there a lot of non-citizen astronomers? Or is that common terminology? The Kilonova seekers website is a great idea regardless. Open sourced astronomy.
This article itself is quite short, but if you’d like more information the [full paper is open access ](https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa53823-25/aa53823-25.html)(and there is also a [preprint ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11524)version). The press release by the university of warwick also gives quite a nice summary ([here](https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/public_take_the_lead_in_discovery_of_new_exploding_star)) alongside images and animations.
I know there’s more to it, but I like to think it’s just a guy in his back yard pointing up and saying “there it is”