An international team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a system of at least five massive exoplanets, orbiting the Sun-like star K2-138. This planetary system is approximately 792 light-years away toward the constellation Aquarius. A paper reporting this discovery is published in the Astronomical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).
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