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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
skyglowberlin@fediscience.org ("Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺") wrote:

When I was born, our civilization didn't yet have evidence that other stars had planets.

Last night, I took measurements of a planet crossing the face of another star from my backyard with an #eVscope.

How cool is that?

Image showing the results of an observation of the brightness of a star. Lots of gray dots show the individual measurements with uncertainty intervals, and blue squares show the weighted average of 12 of the dots. The blue dots dip in the middle of the observation, when the planet passed the face of the star. A red line shows a model fit to the data.