Citizen scientists discover strange new world that pro astronomers missed

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With help from a dead spacecraft, citizen scientists just discovered an alien world that professional astronomers had overlooked.
The newfound exoplanet orbits a small red star 226 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Roughly twice as big as Earth, K2-288Bb circles its host star in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and possibly life could exist.
The discovery, des