The former US naval officer has participated in online volunteer projects that allow citizen scientists to look through NASA telescope for signs of exoplanets, since 2010?
Volunteer citizen scientists are uncovering exoplanets like this Jupiter-sized gas giant—here's how you can sign up to @DoNASAScience: https://t.co/8MKoS80l3O pic.twitter.com/L4We4xyBWh.
Uncovering this planet and pinning down its size and mass required a large collaboration between professional astronomers and citizen scientists like Jacobs.
“Discovering and publishing TOI-2180 b was a great group effort demonstrating that professional astronomers and seasoned citizen scientists can successfully work together,” Jacobs said.
Using TESS data, scientists look for changes in brightness of nearby stars, which could indicate the presence of orbiting planets.
Jacobs is part of a group of citizen scientists who look at plots of TESS data, showing the change in a star’s brightness over time, in search of new planets.
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