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It’s hard to believe that just four decades ago, we had no idea whether planets existed outside our solar system. “In 2017 Dr. Christiansen, along with Dr. Ian Crossfield, was instrumental in ensuring that the planet-hunting data from ” was made public. This ensured citizen scientists could become planet hunters. As a project scientist on

Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However, a computer problem has kept the mission’s loyal support team in Southern California from knowing much more about the status of one of NASA’s longest-lived spacecraft. The computer glitch cropped up on November 14, and it affected