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Texas Tech physicist helps confirm distant ‘super Jupiter’ using NASA satellite in new way

Texas Tech physicist helps confirm distant ‘super Jupiter’ using NASA satellite in new way
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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A Texas Tech University physicist is part of an international research team that used NASA’s planet-hunting satellite in a new way to confirm the existence of a distant exoplanet nearly 40,000 light-years from Earth.Michael Fausnaugh, an assistant professor in the Departme...

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