Fans of a TV show discovered 4 planets in only 48 hours
 

Fans of a TV show discovered 4 planets in only 48 hours
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In three days, the Australia iteration of astro**my TV show Stargazing Live brought us #SpaceGandalf and **w its viewers have discovered four planets.*

After it was promoted on the show, citizen scientists and fans of the program came together to contribute to a crowd-sourcing project, stalking around 100,000 stars on the Zooniverse website, which displays recent data from the Kepler Space Telescope. *

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And you betcha, in just 48 hours, around 10,000 volunteers discovered scores of potential new planet candidates, with scientists confirming the discovery of four “super-Earth” planets orbiting a star in the constellation of Aquarius.* Read more...

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