citizen astronomy

Astronomers announced a compact "one of a kind" system of three stars earlier this year. The star system consists of a binary set of stars (two stars that orbit one another) with a more massive star orbiting the binary. The orbital period…

USING TYPICAL STARGAZING TOOLS, a UC Riverside astronomer and citizen scientists discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view. TOI-2180 b, with a diameter similar to Jupiter's, is nearly 3x more massive than Jupiter and 105x the mass of…

The power of many is increasingly being harnessed as scientists and citizen scientists work together to collect data we now have the computing power to quickly crunch. And citizen science is helping us complete our census of the Sun's…