Yet another distant world has come to sharper focus thanks to the collective scientific muscle of citizen scientists.
A large team led by Federico Noguer of the Arizona State University announced it has measured the most precise specifics yet of WASP-77 Ab, a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet that orbits blisteringly close to its star roughly 330 light-years from Earth. The updated parameters are so clear they should enable predictions of when the planet will cross the face of its star, a phenomenon known as transit that is crucial to catalog the planet's atmosphere, among other traits.
