Amazing Discovery: Amateur Astronomers Find Planet with 4 Suns

The Planet Hunters group made data from NASA’s $600 million Kepler telescope available to the public through its website and coordinates their findings with Yale astronomers.   “Citizen scientists” Robert Gagliano and Kian Jek spied anomalies that confirmed the existence of the special planet, now known as PH1 — short for Planet Hunters 1 — the first heavenly body found by the online citizen science project.

Finally, the internet is used for something besides seeing tits or pictures of people’s pets.  This whole web thing might work out after all.

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