Pitt Planet Hunters Track Long, Strange Voyage of Distant Planet as Part of International Collaboration

Pitt Planet Hunters Track Long, Strange Voyage of Distant Planet as Part of International Collaboration

PITTSBURGH—University of Pittsburgh planet hunters based at the Allegheny Observatory were one of nine teams around the world that tracked a planet 190 light-years from Earth making its rare 12-hour passage in front of its star. The project resulted in the first ground-based observation of the entire unusually drawn out transit and established a practical technique for recording the movement of other exoplanets, or planets outside of Earth’s solar system, the teams reported in The Astrophysical Journal

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