NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has so far spotted over 7,000 planets around other stars, but only a fraction of them have been confirmed to be real detections — the rest could be intriguing planets awaiting discovery or simply noise. Unfortunately, however, neither TESS nor other professional telescopes have the luxury of time to study every suspect in detail.
This is where amateur astronomers come in.
