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Observations confirm amateur-discovered exo-Neptune

FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS of an amateur-discovered planetary system show that its planet has Neptune’s mass and orbits its star in the region where ice giants are thought to form.

On October 25, 2017, Japanese amateur astronomer Tadashi

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