‘Citizen Scientists’ Discover New Planet , As Big as Jupiter.<br />'The Independent' reports that citizen scientists and astronomers have detected a new planet that is 379 light-years away.<br />It has been named TOI-2180 b.<br />The planet, which is about the size of Jupiter but thought to be more dense, <br />takes 261 days to orbit its star.<br />Its temperature is about 76 degrees Celsius. .<br />With this new discovery, we are … pushing the limits of the kinds of planets we can extract from TESS [Nasa’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite] observations, Diana Dragomir, assistant professor at the <br />University of New Mexico, via 'The Independent'.<br />With this new discovery, we are … pushing the limits of the kinds of planets we can extract from TESS [Nasa’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite] observations, Diana Dragomir, assistant professor at the <br />University of New Mexico, via 'The Independent'.<br />TESS was not specifically designed to find such long-orbit exoplanets, but our team, with the help of citizen scientists, are digging out these rare gems nonetheless, Diana Dragomir, assistant professor at the <br />University of New Mexico, via 'The Independent'.<br />'The Independent' reports that the effort put forth by citizen scientists, who inspect data manually using a program called LcTools, .<br />is often more accurate than algorithms written to perform the same task.<br />This is one area where humans are still beating code, Dr. Dalba, astronomer at University of California, Riverside, <br />via 'The Independent'
