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  • Amateurs Unveil Jupiter's Cousin: A New Planet Discovered With Backyard Telescopes

    08/27/2024 5:05:21 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | August 26, 2024 | NASA
    ...two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty "warm Jupiter."...Planets around other stars, called exoplanets, sometimes block the light from the stars they orbit. When this happens, it's called a "transit." Amateur astronomers can observe exoplanet transits with their own telescopes by watching for the light from a nearby star to dim.NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sees these dimming events, too—many thousands of them. But just seeing a star dim once is not enough. You need to catch multiple dimming events (and perform various other...