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Old 07-08-2020, 10:11 AM
alfa015 (Alberto)
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First exoplanet candidate fully discovered by amateur astronomers

Exoplanets have been a particularly hot topic of late. More than 4000 of them have been discovered since the first in 1995. Now one more can potentially be added to the list. This one is orbiting Gliese 3470, a red dwarf star located in the constellation Cancer. What makes this discovery particularly interesting is that this planet wasn’t discovered by any professional astronomers using high tech equipment like the Kepler Space Telescope. It was found entirely by amateurs.

https://www.universetoday.com/147231...r-astronomers/
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