You don’t need a huge dish in a South American mountain range to discover new planets. Peter McCullough and his team have been using consumer-grade technology and distributed computing to watch distant stars, and they’ve lucked out by spotting an extrasolar planet of similar size to Jupiter without the use of any big observatories.
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astoNOMy, right?
Okay, I’ll cop to being obtuse — I apparently missed the referent/joke connected to using “astrology” instead of “astronomy” in the title. Simple irony?
Ah, you know I love to keep our readers on their toes! Keep those eyes peeled for my next deliberate mistake!
{slinks off quietly}