Crowdsourcing astronomers confirm existence of exoplanets

Kurt Pfitzer — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:00:04 +0000

Excerpt: Back in 2002, in his first year as a graduate student at Ohio State University, Joshua Pepper was sitting in his office one day when a professor walked by and asked what he was doing. Nothing much, Pepper said. Good, the professor replied. Then you’ll have time to work on my project. Pepper, an...

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Crowdsourcing astronomers confirm existence of exoplanets