Citizen scientists find young-Jupiter-like object missed by previous exoplanet searches
Published Date: 12/9/2021
Source: sciencedaily.com
Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is very distant from its host star -- more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the Sun -- and is thought to be a large planet or a small brown dwarf, a type of object that is not massive enough to burn hydrogen like true stars.