Amateur scientists find planet with four suns
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
Take that, Tatooine! Citizen astronomers in the volunteer Planet Hunters program discover a solar system of four gravitationally connected stars. When Yale astronomer Megan Schwamb announced the discovery of a distant planet at an astronomy meeting in Reno this week, the stargazing world was left agog.