New Exoplanet Detection Program for Citizen Scientists PRESS RELEASE DATE September 19, 2022 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org Artist’s conception of the multiple planet system. Credit: Gemini Observatory....
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New Exoplanet Detection Program for Citizen Scientists PRESS RELEASE DATE September 19, 2022 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org Artist’s conception of the multiple planet system. Credit: Gemini Observatory. Artwork by Lynette Cook. September 19, 2022, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and its partner Unistellar are launching a new exoplanet detection program that will engage citizen scientists worldwide. Amateur astronomers, using either Unistellar’s eVscope or another telescope, will be invited to help confirm exoplanet candidates identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) by observing possible exoplanet transits from Earth. Most known exoplanets have been detected using the transit method, most notably by the Kepler Mission and now TESS. A transit is when a planet passes between its star and the observer, who will see the star dimming as the planet orbits. The demand for follow-up observations of transitin
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