32 New Planets Found By ESO's HARPS Spectrograph

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory  have discovered 32 new planets outside of our solar system using the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph. HARPS has now...

Crowdsourcing astronomy

How amateur and professional astronomers worked together to discover a bizarre astronomical phenomenon.A terrific endorsement of citizen science, citizen journalism and crowdsourcing.