The Community Scientists Who Helped Discover A New Planet

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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When a team of exoplanetary treasure hunters joined forces with professional astronomers, they discovered a whole new world. Short Wave host Emily Kwong talks with astronomer Paul Dalba and community scientist Tom Jacobs about how their collaboration led to the recent observation of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave.
0:03.6	From NPR.
0:05.6	Think back to your childhood.
0:07.0	And you may remember that a lot of kids go through a science phase.
0:12.1	For you, the fixation might have been rocks and gemstones.
0:15.4	Mine was dinosaurs.
0:17.2	Tom Jacobs was a celestial object kind of kid.
0:21.0	Well, when I was in third grade, I baked a comet.
0:24.9	What?
0:25.9	I baked a comet.
0:28.8	Tom grew up in Seattle.
0:30.9	And the science fair came up.
0:31.9	I thought, well, I'll just mold myself a comet, make it red like fire, but sprinkle
0:38.4	on it.
0:39.4	I baked it.
0:40.4	Can you imagine that inner end for the science fair?
0:44.5	Was it delicious?
0:45.5	Did you eat it?
0:46.5	Oh no.
0:47.5	No, it did eat it.
0:50.6	But Tom did get bits by the astronomy bug.
0:55.0	And so did Paul Dalba.
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