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Citizen scientists help discover record-breaking exoplanet in binary star system

A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system containing two stars and possibly another exoplanet. Planet hunters discovered the Neptune-like planet when it passed in front of its parent star, temporarily dimming the star’s light, similar to a solar eclipse on Earth.

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