# @planetary_pan on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcz1WGsXXc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33110420-planetary-pan-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-12-14T04:39:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) — https://gondola.cc/planetarypan

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Overlooked Exoplanet Found by Citizen Scientists⠀
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A new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal details the discovery of a massive exoplanet that could be a brown dwarf, orbiting at a huge distance from its star: over 1,600 astronomical units away. Remember, an astronomical unit is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, so this giant of a planet is 1,600 times farther away. We haven’t found a lot of planets at that type of distance from their host stars.⠀
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Now, one of the coolest pieces of this story is that this particular exoplanet was discovered by a volunteer citizen scientist looking at data in the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project.⠀
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IMAGE: At left, the NASA WISE image of the BD+60 1417AB system. At right bottom is the host star and companion, and at top right is a zoom-in on the new low-mass world. The image is a color-composite from multiple WISE bands. CREDIT: Backyard Worlds collaborator Léopold Gramaize⠀
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#planetaryscience #exoplanet #citizenscience #space #science #gasgiant #browndwarf #nasawise #backywardworlds

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backywardworlds, gasgiant, exoplanet, citizenscience, planetaryscience, nasawise, science, browndwarf, space

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